USCIS Home Visits

Do warrantless home visits by USCIS investigators of a married couple’s home violate the Fourth Amendment? Whoever believes the answer is “no,” theorizing that one or both of the married parties granted them “consent” to search the home, is mistaken because the consent was clearly coercive. Imagine this. Two government agents walk up to your door out of the blue. They knock on the door. You open the door and they tell you they are government agents who work for an immigration agency. They tell you they are there because you have a pending application for immigration benefits and they’d like to take a look around the home. You ask whether…