Overview
- Video published this week shows masked federal agents using a battering ram to force open a Minneapolis home and detain Garrison Gibson as his family demanded a judicial warrant.
- Attorneys filed a habeas corpus petition within 24 hours of the arrest, and a federal judge ordered DHS not to move Gibson and granted the government additional days to respond.
- Gibson remains in ICE custody at the Freeborn County jail after an initial transfer to Texas that was reversed by court order, according to his lawyer and detainee records.
- Legal experts note that administrative immigration documents do not authorize nonconsensual entry into a private residence, and common exceptions to the warrant requirement rarely apply to civil arrests.
- DHS says the arrest is part of efforts to target “the worst of the worst,” citing Gibson’s removal order and criminal history, while his attorney says he had been regularly checking in and calls the entry a constitutional violation.