The full title is missing context, too: it’s a leaked secret memo intentionally concealed by ICE/DHS.

Whatever you call it, all these threads will be flagged.

HN'ers are committed to willfully ignoring the US government's slide into facism.

It also only matters if the courts choose to get involved and the immigration folks choose to comply.

No sure thing an that.

The current administration is post constitution. That (“post constitution”) is a big part of the project 2025 ideology, and you can look up what’s been said on this topic before. It’s not something that they view as a law that limits them but more like an annoyance in their way. So an assertion that a constitutional right doesn’t matter is completely in line with their strategy. Every violation is a way to normalize this until it’s legal.

It seems to be the status quo already. ICE operates without regard to warrants and with amateur hour levels of force:

https://www.reddit.com/r/law/comments/1qf3vjp/ice_hops_texas...

The courts are way behind in all this pretending that they're just allegations of bad acts and covering their eyes.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/us/minnesota-injunction-p...

Exactly a year ago.