DHS Panics After ICE Barbie’s Fourth Amendment Assault Flamed
The Daily BeastWed, February 4, 2026 at 6:46 PM UTC
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Kristi Noem’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is in panic mode after a group of its former top lawyers publicly slammed ICE’s secret use of administrative warrants to enter people’s homes. After the practice sparked whistleblower complaints and a possible court battle, the Homeland Security secretary last month ordered her top lawyer, General Counsel James Percival, to defend ICE not seeking a judge’s warrant in a Wall Street Journal op-ed. However, that backfired when six of the department’s former top lawyers wrote an unprecedented joint response in The New York Times on Monday. The group of former DHS general counsels publicly shamed Percival for his “dangerous” and “offensive” commentary, which claimed “deep-state actors” were to blame for ICE agents thinking they couldn’t use an administrative warrant to enter homes.