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Appeals court keeps in place restrictions on immigration stops in L.A. based on language and job

  • A federal appeals court late Friday upheld a lower court's order blocking indiscriminate immigration arrests in Southern California.
  • The ruling follows a lawsuit last month alleging Trump administration raids targeted migrants based on race, language, and location without reasonable suspicion.
  • The three-judge panel maintained that federal agents cannot detain people solely for apparent ethnicity, speaking Spanish, or working at specific sites like car washes.
  • Lindsay Toczylowski emphasized that the ruling makes it clear that the federal government is not exempt from the law, while Mayor Karen Bass described the outcome as a triumph for legal principles.
  • The decision preserves protections against racial profiling and signals ongoing legal opposition to the administration’s immigration enforcement tactics in Los Angeles.
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Appeals court upholds restrictions on Los Angeles immigration arrests

In the ruling on Friday night, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals agreed with a federal judge that immigration agents cannot use race, ethnicity or other factors, including speaking Spanish or speaking English with an accent, as the basis for…

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Fox 11 LA broke the news in on Friday, August 1, 2025.
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