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.”

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    Yeah, they can just do whatever the fuck they want in the mean time, cops rarely ever get stopped by a ‘reasonable suspicion’ standard, which is much, much, muuuuuuch more lenient than an actual ‘probable cause’ standard.

    Like here’s how reasonable suspicion works:

    We are looking for a brown guy.

    We were near his apartment complex and saw a brown guy roughly matching his description go into an apartment.

    This guy is wanted for… whatever made up bullshit immigration violation… so, we have ‘reasonable suspicion’ that that was the brown guy we were looking for, going into, i dunno, maybe his neighbor friend’s apartment, maybe his, who cares, thus we are justified in breaking down the door.

    And no, no it won’t matter in court, its been a year and a half, brown guy died in GITMO or CECOT or Alligator Auschwitz 3 months before this case brought by his remaining US family actually got before and judge, and even if the ICE agents are found guilty, whablamo, Trump pardons them.