Activist judge blocks sweeping ICE raids, declaring Home Depot a de facto sanctuary for illegals
July 12, 2025 | Kevin Haggerty
A Biden-appointed federal judge sided with the activist narrative against mass deportations as a major retailer and other locations became de facto sanctuaries for illegal aliens.
Nearly half a year into President Donald Trump’s second administration and lawfare has yet to let up despite repeated legal victories at the highest level. Friday marked another setback for national sovereignty from a California district court after a judge issued temporary restraining orders blocking immigration enforcement officials “from carrying out arrests at Home Depots, car washes, etc in the LA area.”
U.S. District Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong in the Central District of California had sided with the ACLU and local leaders including Mayor Karen Bass (D) in the case of Perdomo et al. v. Noem et al. as she had argued “a mountain of evidence” supported claims that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) agents were “unlawfully” targeting groups of people without “reasonable suspicion that there is a violation of immigration law.”
Ahead of the Friday TROs, Fox News national correspondent Bill Melugin had reported that Frimpong’s orders would prohibit CBP and ICE agents “from relying on race, Spanish speaking, location, and type of work when making immigration arrests,” as the order blocks officials “from conducting stops of suspected illegal immigrants unless the agent has a reasonable suspicion that there is a violation of immigration law.”
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