Overview

• On July 11, Magistrate Judge Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong granted a temporary restraining order limiting ICE’s authority to detain individuals without reasonable suspicion of immigration violations.
• The ruling forbids officers from using apparent race, ethnicity, accent, presence at bus stops or day labor sites, or type of work as the sole basis for stops and detentions.
• Three men detained at a Pasadena bus stop on June 18 filed the lawsuit against DHS Secretary Kristi Noem and the head of ICE, prompting the court’s intervention.
• The ACLU Foundation of Southern California hailed the decision as a landmark defense of Fourth Amendment protections against unlawful profiling.
• California Gov Gavin Newsom and LA Mayor Karen Bass denounced the federal actions as politically motivated, while the Trump administration defended the crackdown as fulfilling its deportation pledge.