A federal judge on Friday determined that Southern California immigration officers cannot rely solely on stopping and detaining people to race people or speaking Spanish.
Judge Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong issued a temporary restraining order after the lawsuit was filed by three men arrested while waiting to be greeted at a Pasadena bus stop for work on June 18th.
Frimpong’s order prohibits people from detention unless an officer or agent “has reasonable suspicion that the person halting is in the United States in violation of US immigration laws.
They say they may not base their doubts on the basis of their apparent race or ethnicity alone. He speaks Spanish and speaks English with accents. Its presence at specific locations such as bus stops and daytime workers pickup sites. Or the type of work you do.
The lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security’s Department of Christie Noem and the Immigration Customs Executive Officer was filed after the federal government actively made immigrant arrests in Los Angeles and other parts of Southern California under President Donald Trump.
The American Civil Liberties Union in Southern California called for the victory and restraining order of rights guaranteed under the US Constitution.
“Everyone is guaranteed a constitutional right to protect them from illegal stops, regardless of their skin color, the language they speak, or where they work,” said Mohammad Tajal, a senior staff lawyer at the ACLU Foundation in Southern California, in a statement.
“While federal judges don’t need to recognize that the looting bands of masked looted bands are violating the rights of ordinary people across Southern California, we hope that today’s ruling will be a step towards accountability for the remarkable lawlessness of the federal government that we all have witnessed,” Tajal said.
California government official Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles mayor Karen Bass, both Democrats, opposed the federal immigration lawsuit in Southern California. Bass says he is motivated by a political agenda of “provoking fear and fear.”
The Trump administration defended crackdown on the nation’s people without approval. President Donald Trump joined the campaign to promising deportation.
