Top court requested to lift limits on migrant raids

President Donald Trump's administration on Thursday asked the US Supreme Court to lift a lower court order that barred US government agents from making immigration-related arrests in Los Angeles based on tactics that critics have called racial profiling.

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In an emergency filing, the Justice Department asked the high court to halt a judge’s order that temporarily blocked agents from stopping or detaining people without “reasonable suspicion” that they are in the country illegally, by relying solely on their race or ethnicity, or if they speak Spanish or English with an accent. The judge’s order applied to her court's jurisdiction over much of Southern California.

“The district court's injunction now significantly interferes with federal enforcement efforts across a region that is larger and more populous than many countries and that has become a major epicenter of the immigration crisis,” the Justice Department said in the filing.