{"id":61475,"date":"2025-07-16T08:33:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T13:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=61475"},"modified":"2025-07-18T13:33:31","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T18:33:31","slug":"c-d-cal-roving-immigration-patrol-stops-without-rs-violate-4a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=61475","title":{"rendered":"C.D.Cal.: Roving immigration patrol stops without RS violate 4A"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cRoving patrols without reasonable suspicion violate the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution and denying access to lawyers violates the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution. What the federal government would have this Court believe\u2014in the face of a mountain of evidence presented in this case\u2014is that none of this is actually happening.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.cacd.975351\/gov.uscourts.cacd.975351.87.0.pdf\">Perdomo v. Noem<\/a>, 2025 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 134409 (C.D. Cal. July 11, 2025):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Roving patrols without reasonable suspicion violate the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution and denying access to lawyers violates the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution. What the federal government would have this Court believe\u2014in the face of a mountain of evidence presented in this case\u2014is that none of this is actually happening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most of the questions before this Court are fairly simple and non-controversial, and both sides in this case agree on the answers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>May the federal government conduct immigration enforcement\u2014even large scale immigration enforcement\u2014in Los Angeles? Yes, it may.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Do all individuals\u2014regardless of immigration status\u2014share in the rights guaranteed by the Fourth and Fifth Amendments to the Constitution? Yes, they do.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Is it illegal to conduct roving patrols which identify people based upon race alone, aggressively question them, and then detain them without a warrant, without their consent, and without reasonable suspicion that they are without status? Yes, it is.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Is it unlawful to prevent people from having access to lawyers who can help them in immigration court? Yes, it is.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>There are really two questions in controversy that this Court must decide today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First, are the individuals and organizations who brought this [*14] lawsuit likely to succeed in proving that the federal government is indeed conducting roving patrols without reasonable suspicion and denying access to lawyers? This Court decides\u2014based on all the evidence presented\u2014that they are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And second, what should be done about it? The individuals and organizations who have brought this lawsuit have made a fairly modest request: that this Court order the federal government to stop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the reasons stated below, the Court grants their request.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/calmatters.org\/justice\/2025\/07\/la-immigration-restraining-order\/\">DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin continued to make the same argument in response to the judge\u2019s decision.<\/a> \u201cA district judge is undermining the will of the American people,\u201d she said. \u201cAmerica\u2019s brave men and women are removing murderers, MS-13 gang members, pedophiles, rapists\u2014truly the worst of the worst from Golden State communities.\u201d [Except they&#8217;re not, yet.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cRoving patrols without reasonable suspicion violate the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution and denying access to lawyers violates the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution. 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