A federal judge on Thursday indicated she’s likely to order U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to follow the law and not violate the constitutional rights of individuals that have been caught up in the unprecedented immigration enforcement raids that have rocked Los Angeles since last month.
U.S. District Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong, a Joe Biden appointee, tentatively agreed to issue two temporary restraining orders to ensure the detainees have access to legal counsel and to halt the roving patrols by masked and heavily armed ICE agents that reportedly target immigrants suspected of lacking legal status based on their appearance alone.
The judge said she will issue a final ruling as early as Friday. Her tentative rulings weren’t made publicly available.
Mohammad Tajsar, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California, argued at the hearing that LA residents have been apprehended by ICE agents at bus stops, car washes and tow yards simply because they looked Latino. He rejected the government’s contention that these were targeted stops since many of the people who were questioned about their immigration status were U.S. citizens.
Sean Skedzielewski, an attorney with the U.S. Justice Department, however, insisted that the ICE raids were sophisticated operations, based on surveillance and information from other law enforcement agencies, that were targeted at specific individuals.
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