By Greg Stohr, Bloomberg
The Trump administration asked the US Supreme Court to lift restrictions on a Los Angeles-area immigration crackdown that opponents say relies on racial profiling to decide which people to detain and question.
In a court filing Thursday, the Department of Homeland Security said a federal trial judge overstepped her authority by barring Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents from detaining people without “reasonable suspicion” that they are in the country illegally.
The emergency request will test the high court on a key aspect of President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement push. US District Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong’s July 11 order bars agents from targeting migrants at places where they often look for day labor, such as Home Depot parking lots.
The ruling “significantly interferes with federal enforcement efforts across a region that is larger and more populous than many countries and that has become a major epicenter of the immigration crisis,” US Solicitor General D. John Sauer argued in court papers for the administration.
Frimpong’s order applies in the California judicial district that encompasses the Los Angeles metro area. It bars agents from stopping people based solely on their ethnicity, language, occupation or presence at a particular location.
It came in a lawsuit by a group of Southern California residents, workers and advocacy groups. A federal appeals court left Frimpong’s order largely intact.
The case is Noem v. Perdomo, 25A169.
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