A judge ordered the administration of Donald Trump stop in southern California, United States, indiscriminate migratory raids in which people are arrested based on their racial profile, such as skin color or the language they speak.
Judge Maame Frimpong also issued an order that prohibits the Federal Government from restricting lawyers’ access in a migrant detention center in Los Angeles.
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The magistrate’s decision arrives after the lawsuit filed last week before a district court in California people affected by the raids and human rights defending organizations, which denounce that in the operations multiple constitutional violations and racial profiles be committed.
He National Security Department (DHS) denies these accusations and ensures that they are “Disgusting and categorically false”.
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The American Union of Civil Libertads of South California (ACLU Socal)one of the groups that represent the plaintiffs, detailed in a statement that the order of the judge “It prohibits immigration agents from stopping people without reasonable suspicion”.
It also prohibits arrests from being based on factors such as race or ethnicity, Spanish or English speaking; The type of employment and presence in certain places such as bus stations, car laundry or agricultural farms.
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The second “Order the DHS to provide access to a lawyer during the weekend, weekends and holidays to people detained in the B-18, the Federal Building in downtown Los Angeles”.
The migratory raids in the metropolitan area of Los Angeles They started a month ago and have generated a strong social rejection and even strong clashes with agents, which has turned California in a resistance symbol against Trump’s government.
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The lawsuit was motivated after on June 22 masked men who barely carried a vest with border patrol shields arrested several workers violently, as registered in videos that became viral.
People participate in a demonstration in support of the National Network for the Organization of day laborers for the recent raids of the Customs Immigration and Control Service (ICE), in the parking lots of The Home Depot in East Windsor New Jersey (United States). (EFE/ ÁNGEL COLMENARES)
One of the owners of the place, identified as Enmanuel, denounced that the alleged agents entered the public restricted to the public such as the tunnels where the machinery is and confirmed that excessive force was used in the arrests.
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The multiple testimonies of the relatives of the detainees agreed that they were incommunicado and that the arrests were based on racial profile.
“Regardless of the color of your skin, the language they speak or where they work, all have guaranteed the constitutional rights that protect them from illegal arrests”said Mohammad Tajsar, main lawyer of the ACLU Socal Foundationafter knowing the judge’s decision.
