DrWeb<p><strong>A federal judge’s ruling on ICE raids in Los Angeles should be required reading – MSNBC</strong></p><a href="https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/ice-los-angeles-judge-ruling-profiling-immigration-rcna218624?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=topic%2Fu.s.politics" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"></a><p>U.S. District Judge Maame E. Frimpong refused to be deceived by the administration’s smoke and mirrors.</p><p>July 14, 2025, 2:47 PM PDT</p><p>By Austin Sarat, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College</p><p>Los Angeles is a city under attack. Spurred on by <a href="https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/stephen-miller-ice-deportation-rcna213491" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller’s outrage</a> that Immigration and Customs Enforcement <a href="https://newrepublic.com/article/196154/stephen-miller-erupts-fury-low-arrests-and-hands-dems-weapon" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">has not been deporting enough people, </a>ICE agents have been sweeping through the city, often clad in full military attire like a conquering army. Photographs and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HW150x73UPc" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">videos document</a> ICE’s “arrest first and ask questions later” approach on a daily basis.</p><p>On Friday, <a href="https://www.msnbc.com/katy-tur/watch/fed-judge-immigration-officials-can-t-stop-people-in-l-a-based-on-race-or-spoken-language-243194949509" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">U.S. District Judge Maame E. Frimpong ordered ICE</a> to stop “conducting roving patrols without reasonable suspicion and denying access to lawyers.” She refused to be taken in by the Trump administration’s fog of deception and disinformation. “The federal government agrees: Roving patrols without reasonable suspicion violate the Fourth Amendment and denying access to lawyers violates the Fifth Amendment,” <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cacd.975351/gov.uscourts.cacd.975351.87.0.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">she wrote</a>. “What the federal government would have this Court believe — in the face of a mountain of evidence presented in this case — is that none of this is actually happening.”</p><p>Frimpong’s ruling should be required reading for every American. She modeled the kind of resistance that is essential in the face of the administration’s concerted attack on facts, truths and common sense. Her “believe what you see, not what they say” response sets an example for all Americans who wish to resist an authoritarian takeover in this country.</p><p>The Courthouse News Service reports that, at a hearing held Thursday, the government <a href="https://www.courthousenews.com/judge-inclined-to-issue-pause-on-la-immigration-raids/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">wanted the judge to believe</a> “that the ICE raids were sophisticated operations, based on surveillance and information from other law enforcement agencies targeting specific individuals.” According to CNS, lawyers for the Justice Department argued that ICE could “also stop and question other individuals there who they suspected were immigrants without legal status….” That would be acceptable, a DOJ lawyer argued, based on the “totality of the circumstances.”</p><p>The government offered these claims against the weight of the evidence and out-of-court statements. In an appearance last week on Fox News, <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5396985-trump-homan-immigration-detainments/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">the administration’s border czar Tom Homan included</a> “physical appearance” in the list of things that ICE takes into account during their patrols in Los Angeles. At the Thursday hearing, the American Civil Liberties Union argued that ICE was engaging in racial profiling, targeting members of the Hispanic community and ignoring people of European ancestry who might be in the country illegally. “The evidence is clear that they’re looking at race,” Mohammad Tasjar, an attorney for the ACLU of Southern California, told Frimpong. Even a lawyer for the government acknowledged that “agents can’t put blinders on.”</p><p><strong><em>Editor’s Note: Read the rest of the story, at the below link.</em></strong></p><blockquote><p>Continue/Read Original Article Here: <em><a href="https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/ice-los-angeles-judge-ruling-profiling-immigration-rcna218624" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">A federal judge’s ruling on ICE raids in Los Angeles should be required reading</a></em></p></blockquote> <p><a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/federal-judge/" target="_blank">#FederalJudge</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/fourth-amendment/" target="_blank">#FourthAmendment</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/ice/" target="_blank">#Ice</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/immigration-and-customs-enforcement-ice/" target="_blank">#ImmigrationAndCustomsEnforcementICE_</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/judge-frimpong/" target="_blank">#JudgeFrimpong</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/race/" target="_blank">#Race</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/racism/" target="_blank">#Racism</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/ruling/" target="_blank">#Ruling</a></p>
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