Biden-appointed judge set to order stop to ICE raids across California

Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong for the US District Court for the Central District of California is set to rule that federal immigration raids across California must come to a halt. Frimpong issued a tentative order that was not made public, though that ruling is expected on Friday. Frimpong was appointed by the Biden administration.

The suit before Frimpong's bench was "filed by immigrant rights groups last week seeks to block federal agents from stopping and arresting brown-skinned people without probable cause and then placing them in 'dungeon-like' conditions without access to lawyers," the LA Times reports.

The group who filed the suit includes the ACLU, which also brought a class action suit before the US District Court of New Hampshire to block President's Trump executive order opposing birthright citizenship to be implemented, as well as Public Counsel, immigrants who were stopped and detained while waiting for a bus, and a US citizen who was wrongfully detained.

Frimpong, who during the hearing indicated that government lawyer Sean Skedzielewski could not back up his claim that federal agents were not indiscriminately targeting people, said arrest reports did not include information "as to why they arrested this person, how they happened to be where they were and what they did."

Frimpong told attorneys on Thursday that she intended to grant two temporary restraining orders. The first would be to block stops and arrests while the other would concern the right to legal counsel by those who were detained.

The case comes as ICE has been targeting California, a sanctuary state with the largest illegal immigrant population in the US, for workplace enforcement and to detain illegal immigrant criminals. A raid on a weed farm on Thursday found 8 unaccompanied children at the site.

There have been some 2,700 arrests made since ICE ramped up enforcement in California on June 6, per DHS.