A federal choose on Friday quickly barred the Trump administration from conducting broad, untargeted immigration stops and arrests in elements of California.
The non permanent restraining order blocks the Division of Homeland Safety from making arrests of individuals primarily based solely on components like race, accent, the kind of work they do and their presence at a specific location — equivalent to day laborer decide up websites and agricultural websites.
The order comes after a lawsuit filed by immigrant advocacy teams accused federal brokers of focusing on Latino communities with unconstitutional ways — together with warrantless arrests, racial profiling and denying entry to authorized counsel.
Federal brokers trip on horseback at MacArthur Park, July 7, 2025, in Los Angeles.
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Decide Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong, a Biden appointee, sided with the ACLU of Southern California and different teams who filed the lawsuit, discovering that “roving patrols” with out cheap suspicion are unconstitutional.
“What the federal authorities would have this Court docket imagine —within the face of a mountain of proof offered on this case—is that none of that is truly occurring,” Frimpong wrote.
Notably, the choose’s choice applies to a number of counties together with Los Angeles and Ventura, the place an immigration enforcement operation at a hashish farm turned violent when protesters clashed with brokers.
The choose will maintain a listening to on the case within the coming days.
-ABC Information’ Armando Garcia
