No.
An administrative warrant does not allow ICE or any other law enforcement agency to enter or search your house.
Unlike judicial warrants, administrative warrants are not signed by a judge. They are issued by administrative agencies, such as ICE or Customs and Border Patrol.
Administrative warrants allow law enforcement agents to detain the person indicated on the warrant in an area where they do not have a reasonable expectation of privacy. Areas like these would include public settings, like a grocery store or a park, but not someone’s home or non-public parts of a workplace.
If ICE or other law enforcement agents approach your door, the Immigrant Defense Project and other groups recommend that you ask to see a warrant signed by a judge, and if they do not have one, decline to let them in.
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Sources
- Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers ICE Administrative Removal Warrants (MP3)
- ACLU Northern California Know Your Rights: Immigration Enforcement and Warrants
- Legal Information Institute Administrative warrant
- Immigrant Defense Project Know Your Rights with ICE
- American Immigration Lawyer’s Association Know Your Rights: If ICE Stops You in Public
- National Immigrant Justice Center Know Your Rights: If You Encounter ICE
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