LA federal judge rules that key part of Trump immigration crackdown effort is illegal
by Joel Rubin, Los Angeles Times
Feb 09, 2018
3 minutes
LOS ANGELES - A federal judge in Los Angeles has ruled that police departments violate the Constitution if they detain inmates at the request of immigration agents, marking the latest legal setback for the Trump administration's plans to identify and deport immigrants in the country illegally.
In his order issued Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Andre Birotte Jr. found that a now-defunct policy of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department violated the constitutional rights
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