by Andrew P. Napolitano,Lew Rockwell:
Last fall during the opening of the United Nations in New York City, I recognized the face of a federal officer from his days working in law enforcement in New Jersey and mine as a trial judge. We chatted and I asked him what he was doing. He told me he worked for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, ICE. I asked what ICE has to do with the U.N., and he told me that soon ICE will be everywhere.
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When I asked if ICE has become a paramilitary force, answerable to the White House, he just smiled, as if to say, “Don’t quote me.” When I asked him why he was carrying two handguns and an AK-47 automatic rifle, he laughed and said, “I have more than you can see, judge!”
Since then, the president has used ICE to fulfill his promise of aggressive enforcement of immigration laws while cutting constitutional corners — even to the point of arresting Americans, immigrants and aliens without arrest warrants; arresting infants, killing two Americans who posed no threat to ICE killers and then lying about it.
Government law-breaking and lying are destructive of our social fabric. We have hired a government to protect our freedoms and enforce the laws and to do so consistent with the constitutional restraints we have theoretically imposed on all government.
Does the government work for us or do we work for the government?
The Supreme Court has already ruled that even though it is a crime to lie to the government, it is not a crime for the government to lie to any person. This dastardly judge-made rule that has no basis in history, constitutional text or morality has led to a host of false confessions and trick home invasions as federal agents have lied their way into folks’ thinking and into their living rooms.
But this lying was usually confined to unique law enforcement venues. Until now. Now, in Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi, the area of the United States subject to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, ICE lawbreaking and lying have received a judicial blank check to search and seize wherever, whatever and whomever it wishes.
Entering the United States illegally is a federal crime. When the government seeks to arrest a person it suspects has committed any federal crime, unless its agents have witnessed the crime being committed, the Fourth Amendment requires the government to present evidence of probable cause against the person to a federal judge and seek a warrant specifically describing the place to be searched or the persons or things to be seized.
Source: SGT Report
