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Verify via DHS/ICE policy documents, internal guidance, memos, directives, or public statements showing that ICE’s policy limits residential entry using administrative warrants to individuals with final orders of removal.
DHS explicitly made that assertion in the cited op-ed and press release; DHS’s Feb. 3, 2026 page reproduces General Counsel James Percival’s Wall Street Journal op-ed which states that ICE "currently uses these warrants to enter an illegal alien’s residence only when the alien has received a final order of removal from an immigration judge." Multiple reporting and the underlying ICE May 12, 2025 internal memo confirm DHS/ICE’s stated policy shift allowing the use of Form I-205 administrative "warrants of removal" to enter residences to arrest people who have final orders of removal. Verdict: True — DHS did assert that claim, and contemporaneous ICE documents and press reporting corroborate that DHS/ICE policy limits administrative-warrant home entries to cases involving a final order of removal (Form I-205).