Claims of excessive force by federal immigration agents raise an immediate and difficult question: who can be sued? Individual agents often assert qualified immunity, while constitutional claims under Bivens have been sharply limited by the Supreme Court. In many cases, the most viable—and often overlooked—path to recovery is a claim against the United States itself […]
Read MoreAfter an ICE agent shot and killed Renee Good in Minneapolis earlier this month, Vice President J.D. Vance gave a press conference during which he claimed that the officer has “absolute immunity.” Around the same time, the Department of Homeland Security’s Twitter/X feed shared a 3-month-old clip of Presidential Aide Stephen Miller telling ICE officers […]
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Immigration enforcement in the form of ongoing and unprecedented ICE raids has been in just about every news cycle over the past 100+ days. Many stories have emerged about U.S. citizens being improperly detained by ICE. In just one of many examples, in late June, United States citizen Andrea Valez was arrested by ICE after […]
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