Federal judge temporarily halts alleged indiscriminate immigration stops [View all]
Source: LA Times
A federal judge on Friday temporarily blocked the Trump administration from carrying out what advocates allege are unlawful stops and arrests that have terrorized Angelenos, forced some immigrants into hiding and damaged the local economy.
The ruling from U.S. District Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong, a Biden appointee, came after a hearing Thursday in a lawsuit filed on behalf of several immigrant rights groups, three immigrants picked up at a bus stop and two U.S. citizens, one whom was held despite showing agents his identification.
In her ruling, Frimpong said she found a sufficient amount of evidence that agents were stopping people based on their race, language, their vocation or the location they are at, such as Home Depot or a carwash, to form reasonable suspicion to stop someone for possible immigration law violations.
Frimpong said in her order that reliance on those factors — either alone or in combination — does not meet the requirements of the 4th Amendment.
Read more: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-07-11/federal-judge-temporarily-halts-alleged-indiscriminate-immigration-stops
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