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Advocates in Los Angeles are reacting to a US Supreme Court ruling that clears the way for immigration and customs enforcement officers to resume random immigration sweeps in the region.
As MPR's Adrian Florido reports, the high court lifted a lower court's order,
directing agents not to engage in racial profiling.
In July,
a federal judge in Los Angeles said immigration agents could not target people based solely on factors like their race,
accents, or occupations.
Agents had to scale back aggressive roundups in which they'd chased day laborers through hardware store parking lots and rounded up street vendors and carwash workers.
The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to lift that order.
The Sixth Conservative Justices have done so.
Their order was brief and unsigned.
Armando Guidino is with the LA Worker Center Network.
Immigration agents are now being given the power to profile, stop, detain,
and arrest people because of the color of their skin,
the language they speak, or the work that they do.
The ACLU has said it'll keep pressing its lawsuit to stop the raids.
Adrienne Flirido and PR News Los Angeles.
The Department of Homeland Security has launched operations in Illinois and Massachusetts.
From Member Station WBUR, Simon Rios reports that includes Boston.
Homeland Security officials call it Operation Patriot 2.0,