"All that matters is numbers, pure numbers. Quantity over quality.”
These are the words of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) insider describing the White House’s newly-imposed quota: 3,000 immigration arrests nationwide per day, legal constraints and public outcry be damned.
Since June 6, 2025, the federal government has unleashed immigration agents onto the streets, worksites, and neighborhoods of Los Angeles and surrounding counties, creating a several weeks-long immigration dragnet that shows no signs of ceasing. U.S. Border Patrol agents have relied on perceived race or ethnicity to select who to stop, conducted suspicionless stops, executed warrantless home raids and carried out illegal worksite operations. Courts have repeatedly intervened to curb these practices.
These illegal practices violate the Fourth Amendment. On July 2, the ACLU Foundation of Southern California, UC Irvine School of Law and Racial Justice Solidarity Clinic, Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights and Immigrant Defenders Law Center filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of people who were stopped or arrested during the raids and on behalf of five individual workers, three membership organizations and a legal services provider, calling for temporary restraint of unlawful stops and arrests.
Case Developments
Plaintiffs file complaint against DHS. Read the complaint.
