In ‘Operation Trojan Horse’, masked officers in unmarked vehicle arrest 16 people, despite court order halting raids
US border patrol agents carried out a raid outside a Home Depot in Los Angeles on Wednesday, with officers jumping out of an unmarked rental truck and chasing and arresting more than a dozen people.
Videos of the operation, and federal officials’ statements boasting about the detentions, have raised questions about whether the US government was complying with a federal court order halting indiscriminate raids in the region due to evidence of racial profiling. That ruling, upheld last week by an appeals court, followed reports of Latino US citizens getting swept up in LA raids and accounts of undocumented people being targeted based on their appearance and whether they spoke Spanish.
So they are just gonna ask DHS and ICE nicely to comply? Doesn’t seem like something this administration is big on doing.
They’re probably more worried about liability if someone got hurt in the back of a truck like that.
That’s literally all they care about
At least, that’s acceptable cover from any MAGA backlash if they have to blacklist ICE for “violating the terms of use.”
They can very easily cut ties with them and refuse to rent to them. They just have to have political pressure from the populace to do so.