ICE Enforcement Quotas and Hospital Raids Draw Fourth Amendment Challenges

Reports emerged that ICE had instituted numerical arrest quotas for field agents while conducting enforcement operations at hospitals, schools, and churches — locations previously designated as sensitive sites protected from immigration enforcement. Civil liberties organizations filed Fourth Amendment challenges arguing warrantless workplace and sensitive-site raids lacked probable cause. The quota system, combined with expanded enforcement zones, represented a wholesale dismantling of enforcement discretion guidelines.