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Last Wednesday, Estefany Rodríguez, a journalist based in Nashville, was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement and, according to her lawyers, she was not shown a warrant. On Friday afternoon, the Department of Homeland Security submitted to the US District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee, Nashville Division, a photo of a warrant—what’s known as an administrative, or immigration, warrant, signed by an immigration officer, rather than an arrest warrant signed by a judge. That document, dated March 2, appeared crumpled and contained no A-number (a unique seven- to nine-digit code assigned to noncitizens), and its certificate of service section—which outlines when and where the warrant was served—was left blank. Then, on Saturday, DHS posted on X a photo of yet another immigration warrant, dated March 4.…