A federal judge ordered the Trump administration on Friday to take measures to avoid facies controls in Los Angeles, during the muscle arrests of migrants that have multiplied for a month around the Californian megalopolis.
Therefore, it accepts several migrants and two US citizens, and the associations that helped them file a complaint in early July. They believed that they had been victims of facies controls and also denounced obstructions to have access to a detention lawyer.
Arrests for no valid reason
“What the Federal Government would like to make believe in this court, despite the evidence presented in this case, is that none of this really happens,” said magistrate, Maame Ewusi -mensah Frimpong.
His decision, which applies to Los Angeles and in six Counties in California, forbidden from the immigration police to arrests for no valid reason on the basis of four factors, alone or combined: ethnic origin, speech Spanish or English with a foreign accent, the profession of an individual or the fact that it is in a particular place: as a bus stop, a farm or a DIY.
The intensification of the descents of the immigration police in these types of places, in areas known for being frequented by Latin American, has been controversial since the beginning of June in Los Angeles.
A large part of the Latin community feels unfairly directed and the demonstrations took place last month, sometimes degenerating in violence. The Trump administration has not yet announced its intentions, but an appeal of this decision seems very likely.
A few hours before this decision, the head of the massive expulsion policy ordered by Donald Trump, Tom Homan, defended the use of physical appearance as a criterion that can motivate an arrest. The climate is still tense in Los Angeles, a Democratic megalopolis erected in the counter -exploited by the Trump administration.
Thousands of soldiers of the National Guard still deploy, the antimigrant operations are daily and the Government disputes its status as a “sanctuary city”, which limits the cooperation of the local police with the immigration police.
On Friday, an agricultural worker died of his wounds, after clashes during an antimigrant operation the previous day, in a legal cannabis farm in Ventura’s neighboring county.
Source: BFM TV
