California immigrants swept up in aggressive Los Angeles ICE raids recently scored a legal victory that could undermine a key strategy in Donald Trump’s mass deportation agenda. A federal judge on Friday blocked federal immigration officials from conducting “roving patrols” for undocumented residents,

After a federal judge in Los Angeles barred 'roving patrols' by immigration agents in seven California counties, the Trump administration asked the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals to resume operations that lawyers for the state have argued are unconstitutional.

The Trump administration on Monday asked a federal appeals court to pause a sweeping order from a California judge that required officials to stop making immigration arrests without probable cause in the southern part of the state.