WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 -- Sen. Richard Blumenthal issued text of the following press release:
In case you missed it, U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Ranking Member of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (PSI), yesterday pressed Todd Lyons, Acting Director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), on a policy memo he wrote authorizing federal immigration agents to enter American homes without a judicial warrant in order to effectuate civil immigration arrests.
During an oversight hearing in the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, Blumenthal questioned Lyons about the memo, which was made public via a whistleblower disclosure received by Blumenthal. The policy outlined in Lyons's memo is directly c...