A recent order by District Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong reveals alarming actions by Border Patrol and ICE agents who are obscuring their identities and targeting individuals based on appearance and labor. Agents in various California counties are disregarding constitutional protections, demanding identification under the threat of force, and enforcing policies that undermine civil rights and freedoms historically upheld in the U.S. This conduct, if unchecked, threatens to erode the foundational tenets of law enforcement transparency and accountability, leading to a more authoritarian approach to policing citizens.
Border Patrol and ICE agents in San Diego, Los Angeles, Orange and Ventura counties... hide their faces, tint their car windows, remove their license plates, cover their badges, ignore requests for identification, and target people based on where they work and how they look.
Agents recognize no sanctuary in the Fourth Amendment's protection against warrantless search and seizure. They demand at gunpoint that you show your papers and lock you up if they find them unsatisfactory.
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