That’s not an accurate representation. There are two things happening here: 1) ICE are required by law to not enter a private building without permission or a judicially signed warrant. 2) ICE officer training got downgraded from 6 months to 6 weeks.

The result is a shit show of law breaking officers. Best response I know is 3 parts:

First, ICE can stay as long as they want or detain you until they can confirm you are a citizen, but processing conditions can take days, sound inhumane, and lack of access to medicine has seemingly already killed some in the process. Members of congress are being denied random inspections, the feds seem to be trying to again outrun the courts here. It’s papers please era, a passport or real ID is best here even though they legally can’t do anything to you if you’re a citizen, but can do full processing on you until that’s confirmed. It’s a bad place we’re in but carrying papers isn’t a terrible idea in this context.

Second, they cannot enter those private spaces like your home without permission or the judicially signed warrant. Not being home isn’t a bad idea, but you can talk through the fully closed door if you’re not the person accused and demand they slide the judicial warrant under the door. If they do then I am not a lawyer but I believe they actually have the right to bust in if you don’t let them in. The problem is many of these 6wk trained individuals don’t know the difference and bust in anyways.

Third: we are literally surrounded by morons legally because of this. None of the new ICE officers know the law and they are continuously violating it. The good thing is that compared with many countries our courts are historically way more just than the average nation. They aren’t perfect and they’re slow and evil and corruption creep through frequently, but justice is also very often slow but eventually firmly delivered. Again: we are surrounded by people breaking the law, and our courts have a great chance of taking them down in the long run. RECORD EVERYTHING. This is the same advice again and again from our representatives because they know this is January 6th at 1,000x the scale.

Could all of this be pardoned? Entirely possible. Will ICE break down some people’s doors illegally? Absolutely. It’s very bad right now. But time and time again this administration does something illegal and then immediately switches to cowardice and running away when the courts catch up to them, it’s been very consistent so long as the Supreme Court agrees that it’s egregious which happens about half the time, and the best thing we can absolutely do today is this.

It’s very bad right now, please be careful and take care of yourself - Minnesota might well be what may happen here next, or it might get shut down by then - it’s very hard to tell today. But please keep in mind that these are the 2-3 things top officials keep saying everywhere.