True or False: The Fourth Amendment protects only U.S. citizens from unreasonable searches and seizures by ICE.

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False. The Fourth Amendment protects all people in the country—regardless of immigration status—from unreasonable searches and seizures. The text protects "the right of the people," which courts have interpreted to include non-citizens present in the U.S. This means ICE must comply with Fourth Amendment requirements when conducting searches and arrests. However, ICE operates in a complex legal gray area: administrative warrants do not authorize forced entry into homes, but ICE agents sometimes claim exigent circumstances or consent to justify entry. The Supreme Court has also carved out a "border search exception" and "immigration enforcement" doctrines that give ICE broader authority near borders and at ports of entry than regular police have—but these exceptions don't eliminate Fourth Amendment protections in interior enforcement like the Minneapolis operations.

True or False: The Fourth Amendment protects only U.S. citizens from unreasonable searches and seizures by ICE.

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