Noem: Administration will challenge ruling against immigration enforcement in Los Angeles

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

Click here to view the full story