"At issue is a July decision by a federal judge in L.A. U.S. District Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong, an appointee of President Biden, said she found a sufficient amount of evidence that agents were using race, language, a person's vocation or the location they were at, such as a car wash, Home Depot, swap meet or row of street vendors, to form "reasonable suspicion" - the legal standard needed to detain someone. Frimpong said the reliance on those factors, either alone or in combination, does not meet the requirements of the 4th Amendment."
"The plaintiffs argued in their complaint that immigration agents cornered brown-skinned people in Home Depot parking lots, at carwashes and at bus stops across Southern California in a show of force without establishing reasonable suspicion that they had violated immigration laws. They allege agents didn't identify themselves, as required under federal law, and made unlawful, warrantless arrests."
"In a 6-3 vote, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday granted an emergency appeal and lifted the judge's order that barred "roving patrols" from snatching people off Southern California streets based on how they look, what language they speak, what work they do or where they happen to be."
The Supreme Court lifted a federal judge's order that had barred roving immigration patrols in Southern California from detaining people based on appearance, language, occupation or location. A federal judge found evidence that agents used race, language, a person's vocation or locations such as car washes, Home Depot, swap meets or vendor rows to form "reasonable suspicion," and concluded that reliance on those factors violated the Fourth Amendment. Civil groups and private attorneys sued on behalf of immigrants and U.S. citizens who were detained, alleging cornering of brown-skinned people, failure of agents to identify themselves, and unlawful warrantless arrests. The ruling does not change basic due process protections for those arrested and could lead to renewed workplace and street immigration arrests.
Read at Los Angeles Times
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]