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Former DHS counsel Steve Bunnell urges judicial warrants for home entries, rejects 'deep state' label
Summary
Steve Bunnell, who served as DHS general counsel from 2013–2017, testified to a congressional committee that ICE should not rely on administrative arrest warrants to enter private homes and criticized recent comments calling career DHS lawyers "deep state operatives."
Steve Bunnell, who served as general counsel of the Department of Homeland Security from 2013 to 2017, told a congressional committee that the department should stop conducting forcible entries into private homes without a judicial warrant.
"The judicial warrant is a requirement of the Fourth Amendment and it applies to ICE just like it applies to every other federal, state, and local law enforcement agency," Bunnell said, urging the department to respect constitutional limits on searches and seizures.
Bunnell said he was one of six former DHS general counsels who…
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