Trump admin pleads for permission to continue immigration arrests in Los Angeles after judge issues injunction [View all]
Source: Law & Crime
Jul 15th, 2025, 2:08 pm
The Trump administration on Tuesday asked an appellate court for permission to continue warrantless arrests in Southern California as part of controversial immigration enforcement efforts.
In a 51-page filing with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, the U.S. Department of Justice requested emergency relief in the form of an immediate administrative stay — as well as a broader stay pending appeal of the underlying case — to pause the temporary restraining orders issued by a Los Angeles-based district court late last week.
The crux of the dispute is both the factual way Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents are conducting immigration sweeps in the nation's second largest city and the executive branch's basic legal authority to conduct such sweeps. One of the government's central arguments is that it was not given enough time to prepare.
"[T]he district court has entered a sweeping, district-wide injunction placing coercive restraints on lawful immigration enforcement affecting every immigration stop and detention," the stay application begins. "The district court thought the issues presented were sufficiently urgent that she afforded the government only two business days to respond to hundreds of pages of submissions and issued the injunction in a written decision only days later."
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Full headline: 'Indefensible on every level': Trump admin pleads for permission to continue immigration arrests in Los Angeles after judge issues 'straight-jacket injunction'
Link to FILING (PDF viewer) - https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25997895-perdomo-v-noem-stay-9cca/
Link to FILING (PDF) - https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25997895/perdomo-v-noem-stay-9cca.pdf
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