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Lawsuit says ICE agents are racially profiling Californians
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Jul 2, 2025
A new lawsuit accuses the Trump administration and ICE agents of racial profiling, and says that Southern California is “under siege.”
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A new lawsuit filed by migrant advocacy groups accuses the Trump administration and ICE agents
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of targeting people based on color during deportation operations, claiming Southern California is under siege
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Los Angeles and its surrounding areas are seeing an uptick in ICE operations under the Trump
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administration in a crackdown on illegal immigration. For months, ICE has conducted
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raids in the area, resulting in hundreds of undocumented migrants rounded up and detained
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according to DHS press releases. Now the Trump administration is being sued by the ACLU of
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Southern California, among other immigrant advocacy groups, suggesting ICE agents are racially profiling Californians as part of their operations. The suit says individuals with brown
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skin are approached or pulled aside by unidentified federal agents suddenly and with a show of
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force and made to answer questions about who they are and where they're from
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The complaint says the ICE operations look less like lawful arrests and more like brazen midday kidnappings The Department of Homeland Security is pushing back against the lawsuit allegations with a spokesperson giving the New York Times a statement saying these type of smears are
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designed to demonize and villainize our brave ICE law enforcement. This kind of garbage has led to a more than 700 percent increase in the assaults on enforcement
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officers. DHS enforcement operations are highly targeted and officers do their due diligence
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This lawsuit marks another escalation over ICE raids in and around LA. On Monday, the Trump
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administration sued Los Angeles over its sanctuary city status, stating that it's hindering federal
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immigration enforcement. LA Mayor Karen Bass responded to that litigation, calling it an
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all-out assault against Los Angeles, saying federal agents need to get out of the city
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The legal battles playing out in Southern California reflect a broader divide between
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federal and local leaders over how immigration policy should be handled. We'll continue to follow this story, and you can too, by downloading the Straight Arrow
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