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The ICEtapo has been blocked from racial deportation in Los Angeles [1]
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Date: 2025-07-16
A Los Angeles Federal Judge has issued a Temporary Restraining Order blocking ICE from conducting operations and apprehensions in the city on the basis of race, language, location or ethnicity. Although ICE can still conduct their operations, they have to use “Reasonable Suspicion,” which can not be based on race. This is racial profiling, this is blatant bigotry.
From ABC/Los Angeles.
LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- A Los Angeles federal judge issued a pair of temporary restraining orders today limiting the ability of U.S. immigration-enforcement agents to detain people absent reasonable suspicion beyond merely their race, ethnicity or occupation, while also requiring that detainees be given access to legal counsel. The orders stem from a lawsuit filed by Public Counsel and the American Civil Liberties Union accusing federal immigration officials from carrying out "roving patrols" and detaining people without warrants and regardless of whether they have actual proof the detainees are in the country illegally. In a 52-page ruling issued early Friday evening, U.S. District Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong, an appointee of then-President Joe Biden, barred immigration agencies "from conducting detentive stops in this district unless the agent or officer has reasonable suspicion that the person to be stopped is within the United States in violation of U.S. immigration law." The order also bars agents from relying solely on factors such as race/ethnicity, speaking with an accent or being at locations such as bus stops, day laborer sites, car washes or agricultural sites as a basis for detaining people. In a separate order, Frimpong ordered immigration agencies to ensure detainees are provided with access to attorneys or legal representatives seven days a week, and they must be provided with access to confidential telephone calls with attorneys at no charge to the detainees -- and those calls "shall not be screened, recorded or otherwise monitored."
US Citizens, including passport holders, who had been acosted by ICE in the city were part of this Class Action that is now preventing ICE from grabbing people off the street randomly simply because they happen to be Latino. People are are being grabbed up in car washes, at Home Depot and in restaurants all around the city. And over 71% of them don’t have any criminal record or convictions, while many of them are legal residents and citizens.
Regular people who happen to be Latino citizens are now afraid to go to work or leave their houses because they can be kidnapped by ICE.
Apparently, going back to this behavior, which we previously saw in Operation Wetback in the ‘50s is Trump’s idea of “Making America Great Again.” Yeah, he brought back the racism.
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