US vice president JD Vance has defended US federal immigration officers against accusations of racial profiling and entering homes without warrants.
Vance said that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers are not “looking for people who violated the law based on skin colour”.
“They’re looking for people who violated the actual law, the law of our immigration system in this country. And so long as we had more cooperation, I think they could do these things in a much more targeted way,” he said.
Multiple videos show ICE officers using battering rams to enter people’s homes, which may be a violation of the US constitution’s fourth amendment, which requires a judicial warrant to do so.
But Vance said that officers should be allowed to enter homes with an administrative warrant since they are enforcing administrative law rather than criminal law.
“That’s our best faith attempt to understand the law, again, this is something courts will weigh in on,” he said.
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