Overview

• ICE has eliminated a longstanding pre-arrest worksheet that documented a target’s identity, background, and other details, according to six current and former agents.
• The paperwork requirement was quietly dropped in recent months because some inside the agency viewed it as a waste of time, said former Baltimore field office director Darius Reeves.
• On Monday, the Supreme Court lifted a July restraining order that had barred roving, appearance-based stops, removing a key legal constraint on field operations.
• Arrests in Los Angeles fell 66% after the July order, a Cato Institute analysis found, underscoring how court limits shaped enforcement patterns.
• A former ICE chief counsel in Dallas warned that without pre-arrest documentation, officers could face civil suits if arrests lack probable cause, since the forms had also protected agents from liability.