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phonontoday at 1:34 PM1 replyview on HN

When it's ICE it's both :-(


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voxic11today at 2:24 PM

ICE itself as a federal agency has sovereign immunity but the individuals who make up ICE only have qualified immunity for constitutional rights violations. However they do have sovereign immunity for general torts (or more technically for general torts the USG is substituted as the defendant and the USG has sovereign immunity.