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Patrick Eddington: ICE buys its way around the Fourth Amendment

ICE and other agencies buy detailed personal data without warrants, exploiting a loophole Congress has not closed despite bipartisan support for reform.

When Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) wants to know where someone works, worships, or travels, it doesn’t need to convince a judge it has probable cause for a warrant. In most cases, it can simply buy the data from commercial data brokers. That giant hole in the Fourth Amendment isn’t some oversight by the federal government bur rather the logical outcome of decades of surveillance battles that Congress has chosen to forfeit. Immediatel…

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San Diego Union Tribune broke the news in San Diego, United States on Thursday, January 22, 2026.
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