Federal judge blocks 'roving' immigration arrests amid Los Angeles crackdown 07/11/2025 10:40 PM EDT A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration’s “roving” immigration arrests amid its large-scale immigration crackdown in Los Angeles, saying aspects of the operation were unconstitutional. U.S. District Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong ruled Friday that Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were conducting “roving patrols” of the city and coordinating arrests without “reasonable suspicion” that their targets were in the country illegally. Rather, she ruled, they are relying on improper factors — race, accent and line of work. “The factors that defendants appear to rely on for reasonable suspicion seem no more indicative of illegal presence in the country than of legal presence — such as working at low-wage occupations such as car wash attendants and day laborers,” the Biden-appointed judge wrote in a 52-page opinion. “That is insufficient and impermissible.”