What Orin Kerr thinks about immigration

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Professor of law at Stanford, formerly a computer crime prosecutor at the US Justice Department, and the author of The Digital Fourth Amendment. Blogs at The Volokh Conspiracy about search and seizure law and computer crime.

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1. 22 Jan 2026

   Our readingA federal officer can violate the Fourth Amendment and the victim still have no way to sue, because the Bivens remedy has been cut back to almost nothing.

   Their wordsEven if the policy is unconstitutional, as it seems to be, a person who is illegally searched probably can't sue ICE for violating their constitutional rights.

   ↗Can ICE Enter a Home To Make an Arrest With Only an Administrative Warrant?reason.com 2nd of 3 in this piece