Judge orders indiscriminate immigration raids in Los Angeles stop

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July 11, 202511:08 PM ET
Adrian Florido

A federal judge in Los Angeles ordered the Trump administration to stop carrying out immigration sweeps in which she said federal agents have been indiscriminately arresting people across southern California without reasonable suspicion that they're in the country illegally.

Since early June, agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Border Patrol and other federal agencies have been roving Los Angeles and surrounding counties arresting thousands of people in what civil rights lawyers characterized in a lawsuit last week as an unconstitutional and "extraordinary campaign of targeting people based on nothing more than the color of their skin."

In her order, Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong, of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, said there is "a mountain of evidence" to support the claim that agents are arresting people solely based on their race, accents, or the work they're engaged in, in violation of the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable government seizure ...

https://www.npr.org/2025/07/11/nx-s1-5462618/federal-judge-orders-stop-to-indiscriminate-immigration-raids-in-los-angeles

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1. This Administration has shown many times

That it does not care what the courts say and will not follow.

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2. Yep

And for no reason, since with the access that ICE and DHS have to state databases, it would be very easy to have probable cause and locate the people they are looking for.

But doing it legally would keep them from meeting their 3000 arrests/day quota.