Title: Senior Constitutional Counsel — Search & Seizure Department: Legal Division — Constitutional Law Team Reports to: General Counsel, Legal Division

About

Marcus Reyes is Patriot University’s authority on the Fourth Amendment — the right of the people to be secure against unreasonable searches and seizures. His practice centers on the warrant requirement, probable cause, the exclusionary rule, and the critical distinction between judicial warrants and ICE administrative warrants. Marcus brings particular expertise in immigration enforcement operations, analyzing the constitutionality of warrantless home entries, workplace raids, courthouse arrests, and the use of ruse entries by federal agents. He maintains current knowledge of the evolving case law on digital privacy, cell-site location data, and cell phone searches.

What They Do

• Evaluate whether government searches and seizures meet Fourth Amendment standards, applying the Katz reasonable-expectation-of-privacy test
• Analyze the legality of ICE enforcement operations, including the critical difference between judicial warrants and administrative warrants (Form I-200)
• Assess whether consent to search was voluntarily obtained or the product of coercion, misrepresentation, or language barriers
• Brief the team on warrant exceptions — consent, exigent circumstances, plain view, automobile, Terry stops, and border searches
• Track litigation involving warrantless ICE raids, courthouse arrests, and large-scale workplace enforcement operations

When They Get Involved

Marcus is called in when analyzing government searches, seizures, arrests, or surveillance — particularly ICE enforcement actions, warrantless home entries, workplace raids, and situations where the distinction between judicial and administrative warrants determines whether an action is constitutional. He provides analysis whenever federal agents enter private spaces, detain individuals, or conduct searches under questionable authority.

Works Closely With

• Fifth Amendment Legal Expert — When seizures and arrests also implicate due process rights, especially in immigration enforcement
• Eighth Amendment Legal Expert — When conditions following seizure and detention raise cruel and unusual punishment concerns
• Fourteenth Amendment Legal Expert — When enforcement patterns suggest racial profiling or discriminatory targeting
• Tenth Amendment Legal Expert — When federal enforcement operations intersect with state sanctuary policies