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Of Katz And "Aliens": Privacy Expectations And The Immigration Raids, Raquel Aldana

McGeorge School of Law Scholarly Articles

This Article examines privacy rights for noncitizens in the context of the recent immigration raids in peoples' homes and the workplace. The Immigration and Customs Enforcement Office is conducting these raids with general or defective warrants and executes them in a discriminating dragnet-style, mostly against Latinos. The Fourth Amendment, however, provides little protection to immigrants and their families. This Article explores how law's construction of immigrants' illegality interplays with Fourth Amendment doctrines of consent, reasonable expectation of privacy, pretextual stops, and administrative searches to deny immigrants privacy's protection. In addition, the Article explores the spread of immigration databases and the …