Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem says the Trump administration plans to appeal a federal judge’s ruling that the agency’s mass deportation efforts in Los Angeles are illegal.
The Friday ruling from Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpon temporarily bans the department’s agents and officers from making any immigration arrests in central California unless they first have a reasonable suspicion someone is in the country illegally.
“We will appeal and we will win,” Ms. Noem said on “Fox News Sunday.”
Judge Frimpong, a Biden appointee, said in her ruling that the immigration enforcement operations relied on race, language and a person’s line of work to form reasonable suspicion that a person was in the country illegally.
The judge highlighted a case of an arrest at a car wash. She said the agents’ experience that “undocumented individuals” use and seek work at car washes “falls woefully short of the reasonable suspicion needed to target