COLONIE, N.Y. (NEWS10) — Over the last month, ICE tactics have been brought into the national conversation. Part of why these detainments can be confusing is because of the legal process that agents use to detain people.
NEWS10’s Bianca Caputo went to speak with a local immigration attorney to break down the warrants typically used by immigration enforcement and how they differ from local law enforcement.
Joseph Jacob is a immigration lawyer who works with people trying to find a path to legal citizenship in the U.S.
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Jacob says the difference between judicial warrants and the administrative warrants that ICE agents sometimes use has muddied the water on the legality of detainments…