Overview

• President Trump’s Justice Department has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to lift a Ninth Circuit order barring ICE from detaining individuals based solely on appearance in Southern California
• U.S. District Judge Maame E. Frimpong issued the original restraining order on July 11, requiring agents to have reasonable suspicion before making interior immigration arrests
• Brian Gavidia, a 29-year-old Latino from Montebello and former Trump voter, says federal agents shoved him against a wall and confiscated his ID during a June enforcement operation despite his U.S. citizenship
• The ACLU lawsuit argues that recent federal directives drove aggressive raids and relied on racial, language and workplace profiling to increase daily detentions
• DHS and ICE deny targeting any ethnic group even as local officials, civil-rights advocates and plaintiffs demand clearer identification for agents and expanded judicial safeguards