Overview

• On July 14, the Department of Justice filed an emergency appeal at the Ninth Circuit seeking a stay of Judge Maame Frimpong’s July 11 temporary restraining order that halted roving immigration patrols in seven Southern California counties.
• The injunction bars patrols in Los Angeles, Riverside, San Bernardino, Orange, Ventura, Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties and mandates that detained individuals be granted access to legal counsel.
• Judge Frimpong ruled that stops based on race, ethnicity, language, accent or location violate the Fourth Amendment and that denying access to lawyers breaches the Fifth Amendment right to due process.
• DOJ lawyers contend the injunction severely hampers enforcement operations and infringes on the President’s Article II authority over immigration policy.
• The appeal intensifies a broader legal fight over large-scale raids that began with June 6 operations described by federal officials as the largest mass deportation effort in U.S. history.