Preliminary injunction applies to future Border Patrol operations in the Eastern District of California
FRESNO—Today, in a win for civil rights amid the Trump administration’s mass deportation campaign, a federal district court in California issued a preliminary injunction barring U.S. Border Patrol from using stop-and-arrest practices that violate federal law and the U.S. Constitution.
U.S. District Judge Jennifer Thurston’s ruling in United Farm Workers v. Noem applies to future Border Patrol operations conducted in the Eastern District of California, which stretches inland from Bakersfield to the Oregon border.
In her 88-page ruling, Judge Thurston noted: “practices employed by Border Patrol agents during ‘Operation Return to Sender’— including detentive stops on foot patrols and vehicular stops without reasonable suspicion—the plans of Border Patrol to perform additional, similar operations in this District and the seeming position of the government that Border Patrol agents are not currently trained on their obligations under the Fourth Amendment” demonstrated imminent, irreparable harm to the people affected by Border Patrol’s actions.
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U.S. District Judge Jennifer Thurston’s ruling in United Farm Workers v. Noem
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