{"id":65113,"date":"2026-10-29T13:20:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T18:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=65113"},"modified":"2026-10-29T13:20:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T18:20:11","slug":"latimes-federal-judge-blocks-ice-from-making-racially-discriminatory-stops-in-southern-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=65113","title":{"rendered":"LATimes: Federal judge blocks ICE from making racially discriminatory stops in Southern California"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>LATimes: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2026-10-29\/federal-judge-blocks-racial-profiling-stops\">Federal judge blocks ICE from making racially discriminatory stops in Southern California<\/a> by Brittny Mejia (\u201cA federal judge barred immigration agents in Southern California from stopping people simply because they are Latino or appear to be and are working class, finding evidence of an unwritten, \u2018officially sanctioned\u2019 policy of racial profiling. [\u00b6] In her order granting a preliminary injunction, U.S. District Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong cited \u2018a mountain of evidence\u2019 provided by the plaintiffs, including body camera footage and text messages that captured immigration agents referring to Latinos using slurs such as \u2018tonk\u2019 and \u2018wet.\u2019\u201d)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LATimes: Federal judge blocks ICE from making racially discriminatory stops in Southern California by Brittny Mejia (\u201cA federal judge barred immigration agents in Southern California from stopping people simply because they are Latino or appear to be and are working &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=65113\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[147,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-immigration-stops","category-pretext"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65114,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65113\/revisions\/65114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}