(Reuters) -President Donald Trump’s administration turned to the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday in an effort to defend its aggressive immigration raids after a federal judge in Los Angeles blocked agents from profiling individuals based on race or language in pursuit of deportation targets.
The Justice Department asked the Supreme Court in an emergency filing to lift the judge’s order temporarily barring agents from stopping or detaining people without “reasonable suspicion” that they are in the country illegally, by relying solely on their race or ethnicity, or if they speak Spanish or English with an accent. The judge’s order applied to her court’s jurisdiction over much of Southern California.
(Reporting by Andrew Chung and Jan Wolfe)
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