The order bars the detention of people unless the officer or agent “has reasonable suspicion” that the person to be stopped is violating U.S. immigration law.
A federal judge on Friday ruled that immigration officers in Southern California can’t rely solely on someone’s race or speaking Spanish to stop and detain them.
District Judge Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong issued a temporary restraining order after a lawsuit was filed by three men who were arrested as they waited to be picked up at a Pasadena bus stop for jobs on June 18, and after two others were stopped and questioned despite saying they are U.S. citizens.
Frimpong’s order bars the detention of people unless the officer or agent “has reasonable suspicion that the person to be stopped is within the United States in violation of U.S. immigration law.”
his order does no good since the cop can claim terry stop which gives the officer the ability to make up a reasonable suspicion which includes anything
In California a Terry stop also requires reasonable articulable suspicion of having committed a crime. That means they can’t conduct a terry stop based on their feefees. They need some sort of evidence, and this judge just ruled that their bigotry, xenophobia, and racism aren’t “reasonable articulable suspicion“.