(Bloomberg) – Federal judge in Los Angeles issued an order temporarily blocking the US authorities in the use of racial or ethnic profiling during immigration reproduction in the region and require detention to obtain access to lawyers.
The command of the US District Judge Maame EWUSI-MENSAH FRIMPONG is the latest fall of the controversial intervention of Trump’s administration against migrants in California and throughout the US. It came in the court proceedings of the group of inhabitants of southern California, workers and advocacy who accused President Donald Trump administration for the terrorizing population of heavy hand and unconstitutional tactics.
“Today’s historical decision means that the federal government cannot fence the institute from Los Angeles and the surrounding communities,” said Mark Rosenbaum, head of a lawyer in a public advisor who represents the applicant. “For our federal government, the question is now whether it is ready to perform its operations according to the rule of law. To date, the answer was no.”
The judge stated that he would organize the hearing later at the request of the groups of a long -term preliminary order to block the alleged conduct while the action continues, which may take months or longer.
The judge banned Los Angeles agents to stop and question individuals without suspicious suspicion that they were illegally in the US. The Order prohibits agents to establish their suspicion of race, ethnicity, Spanish speaking, speaking English with accent, type of work they do or where they are.
Tricia McLaughlin, a spokesman for the Ministry of Internal Security, said that “the district judge is undermined by the will of the US people”.
“American brave men and women remove murderers, MS-13 gang members, pedophiles, rapists-to-worst of the worst of the Golden State communities,” she said in an e-mail statement. “The law and order will win.”
The government did not provide evidence if the people who were detained in this area have committed such crimes.
The order of Frimpong, appointed by former President Joe Biden, is the turn of raids at immigration administration and agents for recovering customs and customs agents in public spaces to arrest in bulk. He comes as a wide range of the most populous democratic elected officials, from the Mayor of Los Angeles Karen Bass to Governor Gavin Newsom, killing Trump’s administration over his alleged action.
Among the controversial tactics are the use of National Guard soldiers to protect ice agents during immigration sweeping and deploying US naval songs in the Los Angeles Center to help to suppress the protests that both caused separate litigation. However, the targeting of suspicious migrants masked and armed immigration agents was the central point of democratic criticism.
“Armed with rutile, masking and driving unmarked cars, accepted the central strategy of first grab people and ask questions later,” the groups said in their request to restrictions.
Trump argued that his tactics were to carry out immigration policy in accordance with the President’s constitutional authority and that voters had elected him to follow his promise to deport millions of undocumented immigrants. Trump often portrayed migrants as criminals who represent a threat to Americans, but court records show that many non -citizens who follow laws have been swept throughout the country.
Groups that sued in Los Angeles, the second largest American metropolitan area, and the central point of Trump’s efforts, argued in the trial that federal immigration agents violate the institute “without reasonable suspicion” that individuals were illegal. Agents are trying to meet “any quota for 3,000 daily arrests imposed by the White House”, the groups said.
“But while the defendants may believe that the promotion of immigration can be a game of numbers, the fourth addition requires that the seizures are adequate,” they said.
According to the submission, it gives detailed examples of alleged unlawful federal agents, including a man who says he was “grabbed” in washing cars and interrogated by agents who at that time did not know “nothing more than had brown skin and was present in washing cars.” Another man, the plaintiff in the suit, was detained on the towing on his car.
“He told them he was an American, but they were forcibly persisted in their interrogation and demanded that he was born in what hospital he was born and let him go after showing them his real ID they did not even ask for them,” according to the submission.
The petitioners claim that “rating patrols” focus on daily workers, street sellers, agricultural workers and others were “explicitly directed” by the representative of the chief of Staff Stephen Miller, who said at a high level to “go there and arrest”, unauthorized numbers, rounding to public spaces. with ”and that it is, that it is and” 7-unreven “.
Groups claim that similar racial profiling takes place in raids at agricultural places, bus stops, packaging houses and churches.
Newsom appreciated Friday’s decision, saying that “justice prevailed”, while Bass said that this was confirmed by “Constitution, US values and decency”.
-S using Robert Burnson and Anthony Aaron.
(Update with the comments of the plaintiffs starting in the third paragraph)
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