The city of Los Angeles, and other municipalities in southern California, in the US joined a lawsuit against the administration of President Donald Trump aimed at stopping the immigration raids that have sown panic between the communities of immigrants and unleashed generalized protests.
The lawsuit, presented last week by the American Union of Civil Libertads, accuses federal agents of using illegal police tactics, such as the use of racial profiles, to comply with the immigrant arrest quotas established by the Government.
Los Angeles’s legal action implies its first formal effort to stop the raids after the government demanded the city in June for limiting cooperation with federal immigration authorities.
“You cannot allow these unconstitutional raids and raids to continue,” said the prosecutor of the city of Los Angeles, Hydee Feldstein Soto, to journalists Tuesday night, flanked by officials of municipalities who joined the law Hollywood.
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Trump called the National Guard troops and the American marines to Los Angeles in June in response to protests against immigration raids, marking an extraordinary use of military force to support the operations of the Civil Police within the United States.
The raids are part of the hard line of the Republican President in the field of immigration.
The troops have continued working with the federal agents, and on Monday forces of the National Guard toured the MacArthur Park, near the center of Los Angeles, in an operation criticized by the city mayor, Karen Bass.
According to the demand for ACLU, the federal immigration authorities have carried out illegal actions in southern California that include arrests without court order by masked and anonymous agents and the denial of legal assistance to people retained in a “similar to a dungeon” installation.
With Reuters information
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