descended on a cannabis farm<\/a>, leading to clashes with protesters and multiple injuries.<\/p>\nAccording to the American Civil Liberties Union, the recent wave of immigration enforcement has been driven by an \u201carbitrary arrest quota\u201d and based on \u201cbroad stereotypes based on race or ethnicity.\u201d<\/p>\n
When detaining the three day laborers who are plaintiffs in the lawsuit, all immigration agents knew about them is that they were Latino and were dressed in construction work clothes, the filing in the lawsuit said. It goes on to describe raids at swap meets and Home Depots where witnesses say federal agents grabbed anyone who \u201clooked Hispanic.\u201d<\/p>\n
Tricia McLaughlin, assistant secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, said in an email that \u201cany claims that individuals have been \u2018targeted\u2019 by law enforcement because of their skin color are disgusting and categorically FALSE.\u201d<\/p>\n
McLaughlin said \u201cenforcement operations are highly targeted, and officers do their due diligence\u201d before making arrests.<\/p>\n
But ACLU attorney Mohammad Tajsar said Brian Gavidia, one of the U.S. citizens who was detained, was \u201cphysically assaulted … for no other reason than he was Latino and working at a tow yard in a predominantly Latin American neighborhood.\u201d<\/p>\n
Tajsar asked why immigration agents detained everyone at a car wash except two white workers, according to a declaration by a car wash worker, if race wasn\u2019t involved.<\/p>\n
Representing the government, attorney Sean Skedzielewski said there was no evidence that federal immigration agents considered race in their arrests, and that they only considered appearance as part of the \u201ctotality of the circumstances\u201d including prior surveillance and interactions with people in the field.<\/p>\n
In some cases, they also operated off \u201ctargeted, individualized packages,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Department of Homeland Security has policy and training to ensure compliance with the Fourth Amendment,\u201d Skedzielewski said.<\/p>\n
Order opens facility to lawyer visits <\/p>\n
Lawyers from Immigrant Defenders Law Center and other groups say they also have been denied access to a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in downtown LA known as \u201cB-18\u201d on several occasions since June, according to court documents.<\/p>\n
Lawyer Mark Rosenbaum said in one incident on June 7 attorneys \u201cattempted to shout out basic rights\u201d at a bus of people detained by immigration agents in downtown LA when the government drivers honked their horns to drown them out and chemical munitions akin to tear gas were deployed. <\/p>\n
Skedzielewski said access was only restricted to \u201cprotect the employees and the detainees\u201d during violent protests and it has since been restored.<\/p>\n
Rosenbaum said lawyers were denied access even on days without any demonstrations nearby, and that the people detained are also not given sufficient access to phones or informed that lawyers were available to them.<\/p>\n
He said the facility lacks adequate food and beds, which he called \u201ccoercive\u201d to getting people to sign papers to agree to leave the country before consulting an attorney.<\/p>\n
Friday\u2019s order will prevent the government from solely using apparent race or ethnicity, speaking Spanish or English with an accent, presence at a location such as a tow yard or car wash, or someone\u2019s occupation as the basis for reasonable suspicion to stop someone. It will also require officials to open B-18 to visitation by attorneys seven days a week and provide detainees access to confidential phone calls with attorneys.<\/p>\n
Attorneys general for 18 Democratic states also filed briefs in support of the orders.<\/p>\n
U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents were already barred from making warrantless arrests in a large swath of eastern California after a federal judge issued a preliminary injunction in April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 A federal judge on Friday ordered the Trump administration to halt indiscriminate immigration stops…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":58613,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[10422,40181,42683,64,2059,276,69,57,409,336,362,224,42682,42681,50,80,2068,42680,8958,10425,3676,61,67,370,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-58612","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"category-us","9":"tag-abigail-jackson","10":"tag-american-civil-liberties-union","11":"tag-brian-gavidia","12":"tag-business","13":"tag-ca-state-wire","14":"tag-california","15":"tag-donald-trump","16":"tag-general-news","17":"tag-immigration","18":"tag-lawsuits","19":"tag-legal-proceedings","20":"tag-los-angeles","21":"tag-mark-rosenbaum","22":"tag-mohammad-tajsar","23":"tag-news","24":"tag-politics","25":"tag-race-and-ethnicity","26":"tag-sean-skedzielewski","27":"tag-spain-government","28":"tag-tricia-mclaughlin","29":"tag-u-s-department-of-homeland-security","30":"tag-u-s-news","31":"tag-united-states","32":"tag-united-states-government","33":"tag-unitedstates","34":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}