By Cindy Cohn<\/p>\n\n\n\n Dangerously unchecked surveillance and rights violations have been a throughline of the Department of Homeland Security since the agency\u2019s creation in the wake of the September 11th attacks. In particular, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) have been responsible for countless civil liberties and digital rights violations since that time. In the past year, however, ICE and CBP have descended into utter lawlessness, repeatedly refusing to exercise or submit to the democratic accountability required by the Constitution and our system of laws. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The Trump Administration has made indiscriminate immigration enforcement and mass deportation a key feature of its agenda, with little to no accountability for illegal actions by agents and agency officials. Over the past year, we\u2019ve seen massive ICE raids in cities from Los Angeles to Chicago to Minneapolis. Supercharged by an unprecedented funding increase<\/a>, immigration enforcement agents haven\u2019t been limited to boots on the ground: they\u2019ve been scanning faces<\/a>, tracking neighborhood cell phone activity<\/a>, and amassing surveillance tools<\/a> to monitor immigrants and U.S. citizens alike. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The latest enforcement actions in Minnesota have led to federal immigration agents killing Renee Good and Alex Pretti. Both were engaged in their First Amendment right to observe and record<\/a> law enforcement when they were killed. And it\u2019s only because others similarly exercised their right to record that these killings were documented and widely exposed, countering false narratives the Trump Administration promoted in an attempt to justify the unjustifiable. <\/p>\n\n\n\n These constitutional violations are systemic, not one-offs. Just last week, the Associated Press<\/a> reported a leaked ICE memo<\/a> that authorizes agents to enter homes solely based on \u201cadministrative\u201d warrants\u2014lacking any judicial involvement. This government policy is contrary to the \u201cvery core\u201d of the Fourth Amendment, which protects us against unreasonable search and seizure, especially in our own homes<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n These violations must stop now. ICE and CBP have grown so disdainful of the rule of law that reforms or guardrails cannot suffice. We join with many others in saying that Congress must vote to reject any further funding of ICE and CBP this week. But that is not enough. It\u2019s time for Congress to do the real work of rebuilding our immigration enforcement system from the ground up, so that it respects human rights (including digital rights) and human dignity, with real accountability for individual officers, their leadership, and the agency as a whole.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This is a good example of why I haven’t financially supported the EFF for decades, because they drifted too far to the left. Those two people killed were obstructing law enforcement officers, and made themselves a threat to those officers, getting themselves killed. And the fourth amendment is for citizens, not criminals. Also, the EFF […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"blocksy_meta":[],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Jason","author_link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/author\/jturning\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15481"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15484,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15481\/revisions\/15484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Protestors](\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/files\/banner_library\/blm-phones-2c.jpg\")
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