Prof. Ana Pottratz Acosta Quoted by KSTP News About Where ICE Agents are Allowed

Professor Ana Pottratz Acosta, visiting assistant professor and director of the the Immigration & Human Rights Clinic of the James H. Binger Center for New Americans, was quoted by KSTP News about where ICE agents are allowed to stage operations and make arrests. Prof. Pottratz Acosta said, “It more has to do with public spaces that are open to the general public or private spaces.” For classrooms and offices, consent from people inside or a warrant signed by a judge is needed for an agent to enter. She continued, explaining, “The private areas that are sort of behind a door that are not accessible to the general public. Those are private areas that you would need permission to enter.” Regarding your own home, she said, “You do have the right to refuse to open the door to not allow them to enter your residence unless they have a judicial warrant.”