Worker dies after migrant raid on California farm, judge orders stop to arrests
A California judge orders a halt to indiscriminate immigration stops as Trump calls demonstrators ‘slimeballs’
In another development, a district judge ordered a halt to “roving patrols” in Los Angeles by federal agents who were detaining suspected undocumented migrants without probable cause and denying them due process.
Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong ordered an end to the arrests, which she said were being made “based upon race alone’, on whether a person was speaking Spanish or English with an accent or because of their place of work, and ordered them stopped.
Trump’s remarks and the court order come a day after a chaotic raid on a cannabis plantation in Ventura county, some 90km (56 miles) from Los Angeles, left one farmworker critically injured.
The United Farm Workers labour union said in a social media post on Friday that the worker had “died of injuries they sustained as a result of yesterday’s immigration enforcement action”.