NY Times….
A federal judge in California found on Wednesday that U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials had violated a previous order regarding warrantless arrests, and ordered agents operating in her judicial district to fully document their reasons for making any future stops.
The judge, Jennifer L. Thurston of the Federal District Court for the Eastern District of California, had previously found that immigration operations in Kern County, Calif., appeared to have been based on racial profiling, with agents making arrests when people they stopped could not produce proof of citizenship on the spot. Last year, she restricted the agency from continuing to carry out random immigration sweeps in the region, citing a “pattern and practice of agents performing detentive stops without reasonable suspicion.”
On Wednesday, Judge Thurston found that border agents appeared to have violated that order when they carried out an immigration sweep last year in a Home Depot parking lot in Sacramento.
Immigration enforcement agencies have justified the stops and arrests under a legal theory that the Trump administration has recently formalized: that federal law allows warrantless arrests if an undocumented migrant might escape before an arrest warrant could be obtained….
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“Congress requires agents to consider whether, when making warrantless arrests, the noncitizen poses a flight risk or a danger to community if released,” she wrote. “Rather than abide by Congress’s mandate, agents arrested everyone who could not establish citizenship.”
She granted a request by the labor union for farmworkers that brought the lawsuit that she take steps to enforce the order….
Note….
This Federal judge maybe be on shaky ground due to a 2025 case that went before thew Supreme Case that ALLOWED race based stopped for ‘Reasonable suspicion’ ….This judge IS disputing the ‘reasonable’ part with just radon sweeps in Home Depot lots of Latino’s…
Congressional Democrats ARE working to prohibit such actions by law against ICE and CBP….
DSD @ Politicaldog101
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