Court: ICE cannot enter Cooperative Baptist, Quaker and Sikh churches without warrant
A federal appeals court said agents cannot enter these houses of worship for immigration enforcement without a warrant or narrowly defined exceptions.
Agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement are blocked from entering churches of Cooperative Baptists, Quakers and Sikhs to carry out enforcement operations unless they have a warrant or fall within limited exceptions. The decision comes from the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which limited ICE’s ability to conduct warrantless enforcement inside these houses of worship.