The border patrol violated a court order with a television attack, argued ACLU

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ACLU workers and the United Ferms have filed a proposal claiming that the border patrol violates a court order that aims to limit racial profiling and illegal, indisputable arrests in the central valley.

They want the judge to demand new training and ban agents participating in July’s raid into Sacramento from participation in other operations until they are re -qualified.

In April, a Federal District Court judge ruled that the border patrol probably violated the defense of the Constitution against unreasonable search and seizure during a January Operation in Kern County Called Operation “Return to the Sender”, in which agents flooded a home depot and the Latin American market, among other areas visited by workers. The judge ordered the border patrol guided by Gregory Bovino’s main sector centerTo stop raids in the eastern region of California, which covers much of the central valley of the state, including Sacramento.

Bovino in June took his agents in Los Angeles, where they spent weeks aggressively pursuit of Latin American workers Outside domestic landfills, car washes, bus stops and other areas. Agents often wore masks and used unmarked vehicles.

Following a federal judge of the District Court temporarily obstructed agents Since conducting raids in the Los Angeles region, Bovino briefly moved north to Sacramento in July, holding Latino Day workers in Home Depot parking.

In an interview near the parking lot with Fox News, Bovino said at a time that his operations were rising without slowing down. “There is no sanctuary anywheresaid Bovino.

“We are here to stay. We are not going anywhere. We will influence this mission and secure the homeland.”

Bovino told Fox that raids were also directed based on Intel.

“Everything we do is directed,” he said. “We had a preliminary intelligence that there were goals that we were interested in and around this home depot, as well as other target packages for application in and around the Sacramento area.”

In a proposal filed last week, ACLU and the United Ferms workers asked the Federal District Court to apply the preliminary order issued in April, which banned border patrol agents from stopping people without reasonable suspicion and making no ghost arrests without evaluating the risk of flight.

If provided, the proposal may potentially refuse Bovino to plan or participate in new raids in the eastern region. Bovino seems to be moving independently: he announced on Tuesday on his social media account that Crackdown La will be Expanding other cities across the countryS

The border patrol spokesman did not return a request for a comment on ACLU and UFW’s proposal.

If the plaintiffs in the Kern County County are able to get a judge to strengthen or apply the original order, the case may have national consequences, providing a legal strategy that can be reproduced in communities where agents use such tactics. In Los Angeles and southern California, agents continue to profile attacks and violent tactics, despite a similar but separate temporary restraining order in the central area, blocking such activity there.

As part of the initial preliminary order, border patrol agents were required to provide ACLU documentation for their specific and individual reasonable suspicion for each stop without warranty.

The plaintiffs claim that agents made and copied and placed on the tongue of boilers for these reports from the attack at the home depot in southern Sacramento.

According to the submission, dozens of armed and masked agents from the border patrol, ice and other federal agencies flood people in the parking lot in Sacramento, ordering them not to move until they want to see their documents.

Witnesses described the unmarked CHEVY trucks, agents dressed “like soldiers,” and to be caught with handcuffs without explanation. At least one US citizen was persecuted and detained during the operation, but the border patrol would not release this ACLU arrest report, as they stated that this was not related to an immigration violation, according to court documents. The agency told the media that the man had cut one of his tires in the parking lot.

A student detained near a home depot.

The agents also managed and arrested an 18-year-old high school student, who accidentally walked to the nearby Ross, according to ACLU and UFW’s proposal.

Selvin Osbelli Mega Diaz, a senior at Vali High School, escaped from violence in Central America last year and came to the United States as an unaccompanied minor. He lives with his aunt in Sacramento and adheres to the orders in his case for an immigration court who seeks asylum, according to the ACLU and UFW proposal.

According to his declaration, he went to the store to buy a shirt when an unmarked Chevy was pulled behind him. A masked agent erupted from the vehicle, dealt with it on the ground and put it on with handcuffs without asking questions, according to Mejja Diaz’s declaration.

“Everything happened very quickly and I felt very afraid because I didn’t know who the man was,” wrote Mezia Diaz in his declaration. “He was much higher than me and used a lot of power and immediately put me on with handcuffs while I was on the ground … I think they saw me and decided they could arrest me because I looked Latin.”

Mejja Diaz was born in Guatemala and surrendered to border agents in June 2024 after crossing the US border. After the attack on Home Depot, he was taken to a detention center in the center of Sacramento, where he had to sleep on a solid ceramic floor with an aluminum blanket. He said he had been detained for several days before he was allowed to call his aunt for a few minutes.

He is still detained in the imperial regional detention.

The report on the arrest of the border patrol for Mejja Diaz is incorrectly stated that he was in the Home Depot parking lot, according to ACLU, which they say supported their claim that agents use “copying and placing” for any arrest report.

How the border patrol justifies arrests

ACLU also says that the official documentation of the border patrol for the attack required by the court order is obsessed with other factual errors and the language of the hob.

Forms known as Form I-213 are intended to document agents’ reasonable suspicion for each without agreement they make. During the opening, the border patrol gave ACLU 11 such arrest reports on Sacramento’s attack. Three of them included “X” substitutes instead of specific information about places or names or details about arrests.

Almost every report used the identical language, claiming that people “escaped from agents” as a factor in reasonable suspicion of agents. Several witnesses told ACLU that some people had not escaped, according to the proposal. The plaintiffs also claim that running from masked, armed men who do not identify should not be enough for reasonable suspicion.

A handful of the reports justified arrests without ghosts, saying: “Sacramento, California was identified as a city where it is known that many illegal aliens remain, live and work without having legal documentation in the United States.” Others noted that California was a sanctuary.

“(A person) was in California, which is a sanctuary. The sanctuary declares the protection of the identity of the illegal aliens from immigration officers,” the arrest reports noted. The plaintiffs claim that someone in a state of sanctuary is not enough reason to give an agent a reasonable suspicion of being illegal in the country. (The California Sanctuary Law restricts local law enforcement cooperation with immigration authorities and prevents the automatic transfer of people to federal immigration detention, except for people convicted of serious or violent crimes.)

The border patrol would not provide reports on persons who were detained but then released, the movement said. ACLU asks the judge to shorten the size of the border patrol of time should share the arrest reports of seven days to four days, as many people detained in the attack on Sacramento have already been deported from the moment they received the arrest reports, according to their proposal.

Hearing the proposal for the application of the order is determined for October in Freen.

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