The judge orders to stop “spinning” on immigration attacks

From Wendy Fry and Sergio OlmosCalmness

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A Federal Judge in Los Angeles on Friday provided a temporary restraining order against the aggressive immigration of the federal government in South California.

Coalition of civil rights, rights of immigrants and local self -government agencies have requested the order, arguing that raids have violated constitutional defenses against unreasonable searches and seizures by conducting grants of people who just look Latin and retention to the admission of admission “Underground similar to the conditions.”

In an order of 52 pages issued late on Friday night, US District Judge Maam Eusi-Mena Fripong wrote that the two questions before the court are if the plaintiffs are likely to prove that the government is conducting Roving patrols without reasonable suspicion and denies access to lawyers? ” and “What should be done for that?”

The solution may have distant consequences for plans for mass deportation of the Trump administration. In the last month, highly armed immigration agents, often in masks and combat fatigues, aggressively retain immigrants and US citizens at home landfills, car washes and Latin American markets in Los Angeles. Trump and other leaders have promised to bring such attacks to other major cities in the United States.

Frimpong writes: “The persons and organizations who have filed this case have made a rather modest request: this court ordered the federal government to stop.” Frimpong writes: “The court provides their request.”

The order prohibits federal agents from detention, stops in the area, unless the agent has a “reasonable suspicion”, which the person is suspended is not in a “violation of the US Immigration Act”. The order prohibits agents from relying solely on four factors, alone or in combination, which include “obvious race or ethnicity, speaking in Spanish or English with an accent, presence in a particular place (such as a bus stop, car wash, a dowry yard, a daily worker, a agricultural facility, ECT).”

“Regardless of the color of their skin, in what language they speak or where they work, everyone is guaranteed to protect them from illegal stops,” said a South California Southern California South California Foundation in a message from Mohammad Taisar. “Although it is not necessary for a federal judge to admit that the marauder’s groups of masked rifles violate the rights of ordinary people in southern California, we hope that today’s decision will be a step towards the uneven lawlessness of the federal government, to which we are all witnessing.”

A second decision ordered the Federal Government to allow immigrants who were detained to have access to a lawyer and repeated concerns about the conditions in which they were detained.

“People … are stored in small rooms without windows with dozens or more other detained in narrow premises. The detainees also routinely deprived food, and some have not even received water other than what comes out of the combined sink and toilet in the group’s holding group,” the order said.

“Is it illegal to prevent people from accessing attorneys who can help them in the immigration court? Yes,” the judge wrote, describing an incident in which federal officials have deployed chemical agents against family members, lawyers and representatives seeking access to detained people.

In a basement area intended only for the temporary processing of immigrants, people are kept for long periods of time and have been denied access to the necessary medical care and medicines. “The facility could not provide the detained basic hygiene; the individuals who menstruation had to wait long periods before receiving menstrual pads, if they get them at all,” Frimpong writes.

At a hearing on Thursday, the order of the Ministry of Interior Security claimed that the claimants should provide a $ 30 million bond to pay for the training of agents to comply with the court’s order. Frimpong denied this request by saying that her restraining order “does not require a deviation from the training and policies that seem to be in force, but more recently compliance with the existing law.”

The complaint filed by ACLU and numerous other rights groups denotes the raids as a non -constitutional “immigration dear”, led by quotas for arrest, not by probable cause or credible evidence.

The border patrol performed a similar, though smaller scale, operation in Kern County in January. The patrol agents arrested farm workers and daytime, after cutting tires, breaking windows, removing people out of their cars and throwing a grandmother on the ground. This was also suspended by a federal judge on similar grounds.

In response to this case, the Ministry of Interior Security said it would retrain about 900 agents of the Border Patrol of the Constitution and after the fourth amendment.

The Los Angeles region began more than a month ago with internal security investigation agents serving orders at the atmosphere and showcase for June 6; Dozens of people were detained. Since then, DHS has said he has arrested 2792 unauthorized immigrants in the Los Angeles region.

These raids turned deadly on Friday when a farmer fell several stories from a greenhouse during a large -scale operation on Thursday on a marijuana farm in Kamarilo, according to workers at the United Farm.

“Test workers rise before dawn to feed this country – there is no work more more in place,” says Teresa Romero, president of United Ferms workers. “No one should be directed, profiled or terrorized for being brown and working hard. We are pleased that the court acknowledged what is set: the fundamental right to live and to work without fear. We will continue to fight until this right is completely protected for all agricultural workers.”

ACLU and the public advisor filed the case on behalf of several immigrants arrested at bus stops in Los Angeles, and two US citizens who had also fallen into what the plaintiffs claim to be “indiscriminate.”

The federal government claims that agents are performing highly targeted operations, which shows that they are arrested by specific people. The leader of the SA operation, the head of the Border Patrol sector Gregory Bovino, made the same claim for the Operation of Kern County, which he led. But later, the border patrol documents show that there are no previous records of 77 of the 78 people who have been arrested.

The decision does not stop the federal government from receiving search orders and continuing workplace attacks. Hearing whether the temporary restraining order should be expanded in advance in the coming weeks.

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