The LA Home Depot raid continues. Did the immigration agent violate court orders?
Federal agents detained the cow workers outside of Van Nuis’s Home Depot in two raids Friday morning, raising questions about whether their actions could violate court orders that prohibit agents from using racial profiles for indiscriminate immigration arrests.
The action is again held at around 7:35 a.m. outside of Roscoe Boulevard’s Home Depot, which is held outside of Roscoe Boulevard’s Home Depot, Maegan Ortiz, executive director of Decucación’s popular California executive director, which runs a resource center for day workers next to the store.
The Department of Homeland Security, which includes customs and border protection as well as immigration and customs enforcement, did not immediately respond to requests for comment on Friday.
But Greg Bovino, head of the U.S. Border Patrol Department, told Fox News Friday that federal agents always comply with the law during law enforcement operations.
“In fact, in Los Angeles – today – as you and I said, we have agents on the streets causing concerns right now,” he said. “They do it legally, morally and morally again.”
Ortiz said many unmarked white vans began to hover around the parking lot, and immigration agents began to “catch people first and then ask people for ID cards”, adding that her organization had confirmed 10 people were taken away.
“[The agents] “It’s obvious that they’re targeting day workers, and they’re targeting organizations,” Ortiz said.
On July 11, a U.S. District Court judge issued a temporary restraining order that prevents federal agents in Southern California and Central from targeting people based on their race, language, occupation, or location without reasonable doubt that they are illegal in the United States.
At the time, immigration advocates believed that the order would legally prohibit cruising places such as home warehouses and car washes, and did not selectively block brown-skinned Spanish-speaking workers.
“It’s obviously an invasion of the TRO,” Ortiz said in a raid on Friday. “I think it’s contempt.”
The temporary restriction order is persist in Last Friday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit. The Trump administration has since appealed to the Supreme Court, saying the ruling “threatening to subvert the ability of immigration officials to enforce immigration laws in central California.
The number of undocumented immigrants in Southern California fell sharply after the temporary restraining order. But there is anecdotal evidence that immigration attacks may have risen again in Los Angeles.
Ortiz said federal agents reportedly were at the car wash in Lakewood on Saturday and at Home Depot in Hollywood on Monday.
Then on Wednesday, Customs and Border Protection agents erupted from Penske’s rental truck and detained Westlake Home Depot in a raid known as Operation Trojan Horse.
La Mayor Karen Bass has caused concerns about whether the lawsuit violated the interim restraining order and directed the city Atty. Hydee Feldstein Soto investigated the matter.
“For me, it’s not possible to be a home warehouse worker. [for arrest]Bass said Thursday.
Feldstein Soto said in a press conference Friday that the video of the West Lake raid appeared to indicate that the Trump administration violated the court’s temporary restraining order, but pointed out that the matter is still under investigation.
“We are very aware that Penske trucks seem to involve many exact behaviors specifically prohibited by the TRO language,” she said.
A Penske spokesman had previously told The Times that the company had no idea its truck would be used for operations and did not authorize the federal government to do so.
Feldstein Soto said if the city attorney’s office concluded that the order was violated, action could be taken to identify the agents involved or to promote stronger legal protections.
However, Bovino defends the legitimacy of the ongoing Home Depot raid.
“Border Patrol, the CBP and our joint law enforcement partners, we always comply with the law when we conduct law enforcement actions – whether it is a temporary restraining order … whether it is applicable federal laws, rules and regulations, especially the composition of the United States.”
Bovino said Trojan action is a goal action based on wisdom, not an indiscriminate sweep.
“We know there’s a long time of crime there, so we don’t ignore it,” he said. “We’re pursuing it, and that’s exactly what we do.”
He said at least six of the 16 people arrested during Operation Trojan, with “significant immigration and criminal history”. He said this reflects the trend seen in larger immigration operations, where 30 to 40 percent of arrested persons usually have a large immigration and criminal history.
A June review of immigration and customs enforcement data found that most people arrested in Southern California had no criminal history.
Of the 2,031 people arrested from June 1 to June 26, about 68% were not convicted of crimes, while 57% were never charged with crimes.
Times worker Rachel Uranga contributed to this report
