Judge Slams CBP: No More Warrantless Stops

0:00On April 2nd, a federal judge in California just dropped the big ruling, saying U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agents broke a court order during an ANN, immigration sweep at a Sacramento Home Depot parking lot last July. Judge Jennifer Thurston called out the lack of reasonable suspicion for detaining folks, mostly day laborers hanging out there. This comes after she reviewed video and records from that 2025 operation, building on an injunction she issued back in April from A, lawsuit by the ACLU and other groups. That earlier order ban warrantless stops without solid proof someone was in the country illegally or a flight risk. Civil rights advocates are cheering, pointing to patterns of racial profiling in these raids, where agents use broad traits instead of real evidence. They've slammed administrative warrants too, calling them weak shortcuts around 4th Amendment rights, like Senator Richard Blumenthal did, dubbing. Then mere permission slips. Now, agents in California's Eastern District from the Central Valley up toward Oregon have

1:04to log detailed signed reports for every future stop or arrest, spelling out the why and how. Similar restrictions are popping up from judges in Oregon, Colorado, and D.C. as enforcement ramps up nationwide. One land security pushes back, defending some warrants for folks with removal orders, but even their secretary nodded to needing judicial ones for, home entries. This ruling sets a tighter standard, keeping the pressure on for fair play in the field. U.S. News Today, powered by AI bringing you what matters nationwide, I'm Cory with a story.