Trump Admin Seeks To Overturn Federal Restraining Order Limiting Ice Operations In Los Angeles

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The Trump administration revenge a petition pinch nan courts to suspend a impermanent restraining bid (TRO) that was issued connected Friday against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) that ruled nan agency apt violated law protections done its migration enforcement practices successful Los Angeles.

In a 53-page bid issued Friday, U.S. District Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong, a Biden appointee, barred ICE from conducting detentive stops successful nan Central District of California unless agents person "reasonable suspicion" that a personification is successful nan state unlawfully. 

Frimpong's ruling explicitly prohibits ICE from relying solely connected title aliases ethnicity, speaking Spanish aliases English pinch an accent, location, aliases type of activity erstwhile forming suspicion, citing nan Fourth Amendment.

In its filing connected Monday, nan Trump management said nan suit was primitively revenge by 3 individual aliens requesting to beryllium released from migration detention.

LOS ANGELES JUDGE WEIGHS SEVERE LIMITS ON TRUMP'S IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT IN CALIFORNIA

Several twelve protesters shape a objection connected nan Sixth Street Bridge betwixt downtown Los Angeles and Boyle Heights protesting ICE deportations.

Several twelve protesters shape a objection connected nan Sixth Street Bridge betwixt downtown Los Angeles and Boyle Heights protesting ICE deportation operations successful LA connected Tuesday, July 1, 2025, successful Los Angeles. (Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

"But, apparently seeking to manipulate nan process of judicial assignment, nan original petitioners' counsel past revenge an amended title adding a big of caller individual and organizational plaintiffs, leveling systemic challenges to national migration enforcement successful nan Los Angeles area," nan Trump management wrote. "And a time later, connected nan eve of nan July 4 holiday, they revenge an ‘emergency’ ex parte mobility asking nan tribunal to enforce a straight-jacket injunction that would vastly restrict nan government's expertise to extremity and detain anyone connected suspicion of being unlawfully coming successful nan United States."

The Trump management besides said nan tribunal gave them conscionable 2 business days to respond to hundreds of pages of discovery.

"The consequence is simply a sweeping, district-wide injunction that threatens to bobble lawful immigration enforcement by hanging a Damocles beard of contempt complete each migration stop," nan Trump management said. "The authorities seeks an contiguous enactment of that untenable bid pending appeal, and an administrative enactment successful nan meantime."

The Trump management based on that Frimpong ignored nan caller Supreme Court ruling involving nan president that rejects cosmopolitan injunctions – nan judge’s ruling connected Friday was not nationwide but alternatively was focused connected Los Angeles and nan Central District of California.

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California Highway Patrol during nan anti-ICE protests successful Los Angeles

California Highway Patrol usage fume grenades to beforehand and push protestors disconnected nan 101 freeway during a objection pursuing national migration operations successful Los Angeles, connected June 8, 2025.  (Blake Fagan/AFP via Getty Images)

"Immediate alleviation is warranted present not only because of nan magnitude of nan court’s ineligible errors, but besides their applicable consequences for nan separation of powers and nan government’s sovereign prerogatives," nan filing reads. "It is untenable for a territory judge to single-handedly ‘restructure nan operations’ of national migration enforcement and usurp ‘ongoing judicial supervision of an agency normally, and properly, overseen by nan executive branch.’"

Frimpong presided complete a proceeding Thursday wherever she considered granting nan petition that will person awesome implications for migration enforcement successful California, a authorities that has go a focal constituent successful President Donald Trump's fierce deportation plans.

The judge heard arguments astir whether to assistance nan TRO against ICE complete allegations nan agency is violating law authorities during its migration arrests.

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Anti-ICE protests successful Los Angeles

A female waves a Mexican emblem amidst tear state from rule enforcement during a protestation successful Paramount, Calif., Saturday, June 7, 2025, aft national migration authorities conducted operations. (AP Photo/Eric Thayer)

Frimpong said during nan proceeding connected Thursday that she was leaning toward granting nan TRO Friday.

"I deliberation it’s important for nan tribunal not to load different lawful law enforcement activities," nan judge said.

The lawsuit was initially brought successful June arsenic a regular petition from 3 detainees, but it has ballooned into a weighty suit challenging nan measurement ICE operates.

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, connected Friday, praised nan national court’s determination to rumor a impermanent restraining bid halting what she described arsenic "unconstitutional and reckless raids conducted nether nan Trump Administration."

She characterized nan national actions arsenic fierce and harmful and reaffirmed Los Angeles’ committedness to protecting its residents' rights.

Immigration authorities groups and section governments, including nan cities of Los Angeles, Santa Monica, Culver, and West Hollywood, person each intervened successful nan lawsuit and Democrat-led states person revenge an amicus little successful support of them.

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Anti-ICE protesters successful Los Angeles

Protesters look disconnected pinch constabulary extracurricular of a national building successful downtown Los Angeles for an anti-Trump "No Kings Day" objection successful a metropolis that has been nan attraction of protests against Trump's migration raids connected June 14, 2025 successful Los Angeles. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

The plaintiffs alleged successful tribunal papers that ICE is "indiscriminately" arresting group pinch "brown skin" astatine Home Depots, car washes, farms and more. Authorities made nan arrests pinch nary "reasonable suspicion" and sometimes mistakenly apprehended U.S. citizens successful nan process, each successful usurpation of nan Fourth Amendment, attorneys wrote.

The plaintiffs based on nan Trump management gave ICE an unrealistic quota of 3,000 arrests per day, causing officers to consciousness pressured to rustle past ineligible requirements to execute those numbers.

Meanwhile, nan Trump management is disputing nan allegations and denies wrongdoing.

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Department of Justice attorneys wrote that migration arrests, of which location person been astir 3,000 crossed California since early June, person been carried retired legally.

Fox News’ Ashley Oliver, Bill Melugin, Cameron Arcand, Jasmine Baehr and Stepheny Price contributed to this report.

Greg Wehner is simply a breaking news newsman for Fox News Digital.

Story tips and ideas tin beryllium sent to [email protected] and connected Twitter @GregWehner.

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