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LOS ANGELES (AP) — A federal judge on Friday ordered the Trump administration to stop immigration and arrest in seven California counties, including Los Angeles.
Immigration advocacy groups filed a lawsuit last week accusing President Donald Trump of systematically targeting brown-skinned populations in Southern California during the ongoing immigration crackdown. The plaintiffs included three detained immigrants and two U.S. citizens, one of whom was detained, despite showing his identity to the agents.
The U.S. District Court application requires judges to prevent the government from using what they call the so-called unconstitutional strategy in their so-called immigration attacks. Immigration advocates accuse immigration officials of detaining someone based on their race, conducting unauthorized arrests and denying detainees access to legal counsel at a possessive facility in downtown Los Angeles.
Judge Maame E. Frimpong also issued a separate order prohibiting the federal government from restricting access to lawyers in Los Angeles Immigration Detention Centers.
Frimpong issued an emergency order, which was temporary measure, while the lawsuit was conducted, the day after a hearing, and the advocacy group argued that the government had violated the Fourth and Fifth Amendments of the Constitution.
She wrote in sequence that “a lot of evidence” was presented in cases in which the federal government committed their alleged violations.
The White House quickly responded to the ruling late Friday. “No federal judge has the power to decide immigration policies – authorities depend on Congress and the president,” spokesman Abigail Jackson said. “Law enforcement actions require careful planning and execution; skills are far beyond the jurisdiction of any judge. We expect this serious transcendence of judicial power to be corrected in appeals.”
Immigration and Latino communities across Southern California have been at the edge since the Trump administration stepped up arrests of cars, Home Depot parking lots, immigration courts and a range of operations. Thousands of people participated in the raids in the area and subsequent National Guard and Marines rally.
The order also applies to Ventura County, where the bus was detained Thursday at a court hearing after federal agents landed on a marijuana farm, resulting in clashes with protesters and multiple injuries.
According to the ACLU, the recent wave of immigration enforcement is driven by “arbitrary arrest quotas” and is based on “widespread stereotypes based on race or race.”
Documents in the lawsuit say that when detaining the plaintiff’s workers for three days in the lawsuit, all immigration agents knew they were Latino and were wearing construction work clothes. It goes on to describe the raids in exchange meetings and in home warehouses, with witnesses saying federal agents caught anyone who “looks Hispanic.”
“Any claim that an individual is ‘targeted’ for his or her skin color is disgusting and wrong,” Assistant Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Tricia McLaughlin said in an email.
“The enforcement action is highly targeted and officials conduct due diligence before arrest,” McLaughlin said.
But Brian Gavidia, one of the detained U.S. citizens, was “physical assault…except that he is Latino and works in a trailer house in the major Latino community, for no other reason.”
Tajsar asked that if he did not participate in race, the immigration agent detained everyone except two white workers.
Sean Skedzielewski, a lawyer representing the government, said there was no evidence that federal immigration agents considered race during their arrests, and they only believed that appearances were part of the “overall situation”, including previous surveillance and interactions with people in the field.
In some cases, he said, they also run “targeted personalized packaging.”
“DHS has policies and training to ensure compliance with the Fourth Amendment,” Skedzielewski said.
Order to access open facilities to lawyers
Since June, attorneys from the Immigration Defender Law Center and other groups have also said they have also been denied access to U.S. immigration and customs enforcement facilities in downtown Los Angeles, according to court documents.
Attorney Mark Rosenbaum said in a June 7 incident that when government drivers honked their horns to submerge them on a bus detained by a group of people in downtown Los Angeles, “trying to shout basic rights.”
Skedzielewski said that during the violent protests, access was limited to “protecting employees and detainees” and has since been restored.
Rosenbaum said that even during the days when there were no demonstrations nearby, attorneys were denied access, and those detained did not have enough mobile phone access or inform the attorneys to be available.
He said the facility lacked enough food and beds, which he called “mandatory” to get people to sign documents to agree to leave the country before consulting a lawyer.
Friday’s order will prevent the government from using only obvious race or race, speaking Spanish or English with an accent, being in a place like a trailer or car wash, or someone’s occupation is the basis of reasonable doubt to stop someone. It also requires officials to open B-18 lawyers to visit lawyers seven days a week and access confidential phone calls for detainees with lawyers.
The attorney general of 18 democracies also submitted summary in support of the order.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents have been banned from unsecured arrests in a large swathe of California in eastern California after a federal judge issued a preliminary injunction in April.