Warrantless Entry Memos and the $800 Million Epic-Google Deal

[00:00] Evelyn Hartwell: From Neural Newscast, I'm Evelyn Hartwell. [00:04] Frederick Moore: And I'm Frederick Moore. [00:06] Evelyn Hartwell: Immigration and customs enforcement officers are now authorized to enter private homes without a judicial warrant under a newly revealed internal memo. [00:18] Evelyn Hartwell: This directive, which dates back to May 2025, allows officers to bypass neutral third-party [00:26] Evelyn Hartwell: arbiters when pursuing targets on private property. [00:30] Frederick Moore: The internal document targets undocumented people through administrative warrants signed [00:37] Frederick Moore: by executive branch employees instead of judges. [00:42] Frederick Moore: Civil liberties experts say this shift eliminates the standard legal requirements for probable cause and judicial oversight. [00:53] Evelyn Hartwell: This policy represents a significant departure from centuries of established legal protections for private property owners, [01:03] Evelyn Hartwell: Law professor Emmanuel Malayan describes the memo as crossing a historic line for federal law enforcement authority. [01:13] Frederick Moore: The Fourth Amendment has traditionally protected all people within the United States from warrantless searches by government agents. [01:22] Frederick Moore: This internal guidance remained hidden from public view until a whistleblower complaint [01:29] Frederick Moore: surfaced earlier this week. [01:31] Evelyn Hartwell: The Department of Homeland Security claims the directive helps manage the most intense [01:37] Evelyn Hartwell: surge of enforcement in history. [01:40] Evelyn Hartwell: A spokesperson for the agency notes that many targets already have final orders of removal [01:47] Evelyn Hartwell: issued by immigration courts. [01:49] Frederick Moore: However, critics point out that hundreds of thousands of these orders were issued in the [01:56] Frederick Moore: absence of the defendants. [01:58] Frederick Moore: Minnesota Governor Tim Walls has called the move an assault on the privacy and freedom [02:05] Frederick Moore: of every American. [02:06] Evelyn Hartwell: Turning now to a major development in tech, Epic Games and Google have formed a secret [02:14] Evelyn Hartwell: $800 million partnership. [02:17] Evelyn Hartwell: This deal involves joint product development and marketing for the Unreal Engine and the game Fortnite on Android. [02:25] Frederick Moore: Federal Judge James Donato revealed the financial details during a hearing on the long-running antitrust battle between the companies. [02:36] Frederick Moore: The agreement came to light as both sides attempt to finalize a settlement regarding App Store competition. [02:44] Evelyn Hartwell: The court is investigating whether this massive financial commitment serves as an incentive for Epic to soften its demands. [02:55] Evelyn Hartwell: Judge Donato questioned if the deal would discourage Epic from seeking changes that benefit smaller app developers. [03:03] Frederick Moore: The proposed settlement would allow alternative app stores to operate more easily within the Google Play ecosystem. [03:13] Frederick Moore: Epic CEO Tim Sweeney testified that the deal is essential for his company's future growth [03:21] Frederick Moore: in the metaverse. [03:23] Evelyn Hartwell: Sweeney maintains that the payment to Google is for cloud services and does not represent [03:30] Evelyn Hartwell: a conflict of interest. [03:31] Evelyn Hartwell: He told the court that Epic has always rejected sweetheart deals that exclude other software [03:39] Evelyn Hartwell: developers from the market. [03:40] Frederick Moore: Google has declined to comment on the specific terms of the $800 million commitment. [03:48] Frederick Moore: The judge will decide later this week whether to approve the final terms of the antitrust [03:55] Frederick Moore: settlement. [03:56] Evelyn Hartwell: I'm Evelyn Hartwell. [03:59] Frederick Moore: And I'm Frederick Moore. [04:00] Frederick Moore: Neural Newscast is AI-assisted, human-reviewed. [04:05] Frederick Moore: View our AI transparency policy at neuralnewscast.com.