{"id":163734,"date":"2025-09-09T10:52:18","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T10:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/us-immigration-officers-ramp-up-sweeps-in-la-after-raid-restrictions-are-lifted-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T10:52:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T10:52:18","slug":"us-immigration-officers-ramp-up-sweeps-in-la-after-raid-restrictions-are-lifted-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/us-immigration-officers-ramp-up-sweeps-in-la-after-raid-restrictions-are-lifted-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"US immigration officers ramp up sweeps in LA after raid restrictions are lifted – The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"

Head of US border patrol says operations will start back up in city after temporary restraining order reversed
US immigration officers are ramping up immigration sweeps in Los Angeles again after the supreme court reversed a temporary restraining order<\/a> that banned the Trump administration<\/a> from stopping people solely based on their race, language or job.
In a post on Twitter\/X<\/a>, Greg Bovino, the head of US border patrol in Los Angeles, called the temporary restraining order \u201cvery poorly\u201d written and \u201cthe worst\u201d he\u2019s ever seen. He also said that border patrol would be starting operations back up again today.
\u201cWe are going hard in Los Angeles<\/a> today and are hitting a location as I write this,\u201d Bovino wrote.
Immigration officers were forced to pause their sweeping immigration raids after advocacy groups sued the Trump administration for systemically racially profiling brown-skinned people. US district judge in Los Angeles Maame E Frimpong granted the groups a temporary restraining order after finding a \u201cmountain of evidence\u201d that the immigration enforcement tactics were violating the constitution.
But the supreme court ruled 6-3 to lift those restrictions on Monday. Justice Brett Kavanaugh<\/a>, who voted to approve the stay on the order, wrote that the Immigration and Nationality Act allows immigration officers to \u201cinterrogate any alien or person believed to be an alien as to his right to be or to remain in the United States\u201d. While \u201cethnicity alone cannot furnish reasonable suspicion\u201d it can be used as a \u201crelevant\u201d factor, he wrote.
He also contended that if a US citizen or someone who is legally in the country is stopped, \u201cquestioning in those circumstances is typically brief, and those individuals may promptly go free after making clear to the immigration officers that they are U.S. citizens or otherwise legally in the United States\u201d. This would require citizens and anyone who is at risk of being profiled under this new order to carry around proof of their citizenship.
Department of Homeland Security called the supreme court decision a victory and vowed to continue to \u201cflood the zone\u201d in Los Angeles while accusing LA mayor Karen Bass of \u201cprotecting\u201d immigrants. \u201cDHS law enforcement will continue to FLOOD THE ZONE in Los Angeles. This decision is a victory for the safety of Americans in California and for the rule of law. DHS will continue to arrest and remove the criminal illegal aliens that @MayorOfLA is protecting,\u201d read the social media post<\/a>.
Already, several US citizens have been swept up in immigration raids<\/a> across the country and detained<\/a> or, in some cases, deported. In Los Angeles, for instance, US citizen and 32-year-old Andrea Velez was arrested by the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency during a June raid<\/a>. Charges against her were ultimately dismissed and she was released.
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Kavanaugh also wrote that illegal immigration is \u201cespecially pronounced in the Los Angeles area\u201d and that it\u2019s not surprising then that the administration has prioritized the city as part of its nationwide immigration crackdown.
While the administration is increasing its federal enforcement in cities such as Washington DC and Chicago, Los Angeles has been a center point of its immigration crackdown. Federal agents, as well as the national guard, were deployed to Los Angeles sparking fear among communities across the city. Immigration agents have targeted schools<\/a>, workplaces<\/a> and Home Depot locations<\/a>. During a recent Ice raid<\/a> at a Home Depot in LA-suburb, Monrovia, a man was hit by a car and killed when he was trying to get away from immigration officers.
In its order granting the reversal of the restraining order, the supreme court said it was customary for the government to stop people working in roles like landscaping or construction because those jobs \u201coften do not require paperwork and are therefore attractive to illegal immigrants; and who do not speak much if any English\u201d.
In her dissent, Justice Sonia Sotomayor<\/a> wrote that people in Los Angeles \u201chave been grabbed, thrown to the ground, and handcuffed simply because of their looks, their accents, and the fact they make a living by doing manual labor.
\u201cToday, the Court needlessly subjects countless more to these exact same indignities,\u201d her dissent continued.<\/p>\n

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