Leaked ICE memo reveals 'broader effort' of Trump's immigration regime: lawyer

A lawyer representing a group of whistleblowers who leaked a recent Department of Homeland Security memo said on Sunday that the document revealed the "broader effort" of President Donald Trump's immigration regime.

Immigration has been the Trump administration's key issue during its second term. The president has empowered immigration agents to aggressively deport as many illegal immigrants as possible and used his platform to largely shield agents from accountability when they have killed American citizens like Alex Pretti and Renee Good in Minneapolis.

A recently leaked DHS memo told immigration agents they have the authority to break into people's homes to conduct immigration operations, a memo that ignores parts of their training related to the Fourth Amendment, according to David Kligerman, the senior vice president and special counsel of Whistleblower Aid.

Kligerman discussed the memo with Adam Klasfeld on the "Legal AF" podcast on Sunday. He described the memo as "dangerous" and said that it revealed what the Trump administration is really after.

"So this seems to be part of a broader effort, and we certainly saw it with the birthright citizenship cases and others, to have two or three or four different classes of individuals in this country," Kligerman said.

The Trump administration has sought to radically redefine citizenship during its second term. One of Trump's early executive orders sought to nullify constitutional protections for birthright citizenship, a move that the Supreme Court will consider later this spring.