When the complaint was filed last year, Frimpong issued a temporary restraining order limiting certain enforcement actions, but in August 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court granted the government’s request to stay that order while litigation proceeds, allowing the challenged practices to continue.
Trump administration officials have previously defended the stepped-up enforcement on a number of levels, saying the crackdown is necessary to maintain the rule of law, to capture violent criminals in the country illegally, and to reverse the flood of people who poured over the U.S. Mexico border during the Biden administration.
However, Eva Bitran, the ACLU Foundation of Southern California’s immigrants’ rights director, has said the stops are “discriminatory in design and execution. ICE and Border Patrol’s racist agenda extends from DHS leadership down to rank-and-file officers who deliberately target Latino community members — often with great force — because of their race. Our community suffers the consequences of this unconstitutional conduct.”
The suit was brought by five individual Latino workers and three membership organizations — the Los Angeles Worker Center Network, United Farm Workers, and the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights — as well as Immigrant Defenders Law Center, a legal services provider.
Frimpong will hold a hearing Thursday in downtown Los Angeles on a request from plaintiffs for a preliminary injunction to halt the Trump administration’s alleged campaign of warrantless arrests against people appearing “Latino, low-income or working-class.”