Border Patrol for Retraining Hundreds of Agents in California How to comply with the Constitution

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The Ministry of Interior Security told Federal Court that it would retrain more than 900 border patrol agents based in California after controversial immigration to Kern County in January.

The cleansing is subject to a Federal Case Against Agencies The American Union for Civil Freedoms, which claims that agents are focused on people solely for the search for Latin American or as farm workers, violating the protection of the fourth amendment to arbitrary arrest.

The leader of the El Centro border patrol sector, which raids, maintains that his agents are aimed at specific people with criminal and deportation.

But agents hit goals visited by workers and farmers, such as Home Depot, a comfort store and routes to local orchards and farms. Witnesses said people were stopped indiscriminately and asked for their immigration documents.

And an investigation of Calfatters on the basis of US customs and border defense records, found that the agency had no criminal or immigration history of 77 of the arrested 78 people In what was called “Operation Return to the Sender.”

“Border Patrol Doses Not Admit to Wrongdoing in the Filling, But IT’s Also Really Striking That Border Patrol Doesn’t Defend Its Conduct in the Filling,” Said Bree Bernwanger, A SEVETOR STEE Their Conduct Was Indefensible.

The ACLU case was filed on behalf of United Ferms workers and detainees. He asks a judge to issue an order to prevent the border patrol from any such vacations in California the future.

In court documents, DHS claims that the court does not have a jurisdiction to review the border patrol detention – but also that ACLU’s allegations “in any case were allowed” through new guidelines and training issued to its El Centro sector.

“Accordingly, the fast, responsive and demonstrated commitment of the border patrol) to prevent such suspected violations in the future make an order inappropriate, or as a matter of dispute or lack of conscious continuation and future irreparable harm,” writes the federal cabinet of the immigration dispute.

Central Valley Immigration Holidays have emerged to predict the lengths that federal agencies will go to fulfill the vow of President Donald Trump to dramatically increase the application of immigration in the United States.

A sworn statement included in the DHS response by the employee of the senior border patrol Sergio Guzman said that the agents were issued updated legal instructions on April 4, 2025, banning the El Centro sector from arrested without a breach of the rules that one is in the case The personality is likely before it can be obtained. Just being in the US without permission, says the new leadership, is no longer enough to justify such arrest. The suspension of vehicles must be based on “specific, articulatable facts”, and agents must document these reasons in the official records of arrest of immigration.

The federal government has said that more than 900 agents in the EL Centro sector will be trained in the new guidance, including how to write reports and how to comply with the fourth amendment.

The court documents also say that the new manuals are the same as the guidelines for compliance with the law, which has already been issued by DHS.

“The law was the same all the time, and in January we saw that the border patrol, which obviously had to know what this law was in the books for decades, they did not do it and could not follow it,” Bernanger said. “We really have no meaningful confidence that they will follow the law now.”

“It’s just a pink I swear,” says Elizabeth Sttter, Vice President of Uinited Farm employee, “This is a policy that can be withdrawn or changed at any time.”

Whatever the result of the case, for many people detained or otherwise affected by the attacks in January, the damage has already been inflicted.

Wilder Mungia Escuvel, a 38 -year -old, licensed master and longtime resident of Bakersfield, said in a statement brought to the ACLU that agents in masks and sunglasses get him out of a group of workers outside a home depot. “My first thought was that they might be terrorists who enchant us or abduct us. I even wondered if we could be killed,” he said. He said he was still suffering from pain in the hand from the meeting.

Maria Guadalupe Hernandez Espinosis, a 46-year-old greenhouse who has no criminal record, said in another statement that agents are forcing her to expel her in Mexico under what they have falsely pointed out “voluntarily” leaving. “My whole life was left in Bakersfield,” she said. “All I worked for is at Bakersfield.”

US citizen Ernesto Campos Gutierrez, a 44-year-old landscaping, said he had been stopped by border patrol armed agents who cut the tires of his work truck with a knife and refused to explain why he was detained. “I believe that the border patrol stopped me solely because of the color of my skin and my appearance,” he said in court reports.

Hearing in the case was appointed on April 28 in the US District Court in the Eastern County of California in Freen.

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