Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., told reporters on Tuesday that Immigrations and Customs Enforcement does not need a judicial warrant to arrest an illegal immigrant who already has an administrative warrant and decides to hide from the law in a private residence.

“When ICE goes to execute a warrant, it’s an administrative warrant, and it’s issued by an immigration judge. That is sufficient legal authority to go and apprehend them,” Johnson said. “They have violated the law, they have crossed over a border illegally, and they’re here without any right to be here.”

Johnson issued the remarks after Democrats accused ICE of violating the 4th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which protects people from “unreasonable searches and seizures.”

From Johnson’s perspective, however, requiring judicial warrants would be “unimplementable,” and those advocating for it “don’t want any immigration enforcement.”

“Now the controversy has erupted, because if someone is going to be apprehended, and they run behind a closed door, what is immigration enforcement supposed to do at that point?” Johnson asked.

“There are some logic and reason that has to be applied here,” Johnson added. “[Democrats] want to have a judicial warrant on top of the immigration judge’s warrant, and we can’t do that.”

Johnson also said that there is an urgency to avoid any effort that slows down deportation operations, as he stated that former President Joe Biden’s open border policies allowed “20 million illegals” to come “across the border just in the last 4 years.”

“Imagine if we had to go through the process of getting a judicial warrant to apprehend people who we know are illegal. How much time would that take? We don’t have enough judges; we don’t have enough time,” the speaker added. “It would take decades, probably, to do that.”

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