Border Patrol Failed to Comply With California Due Process Order

US Border Patrol agents didn’t comply with a court order while carrying out immigration stops and arrests in July at a Home Depot in Sacramento, a judge said.

Descriptions of how the agents conducted 11 apprehensions that day “rest on unsupported assumptions, hunches and generalizations about the relationship between a person’s apparent status as a day laborer and their immigration status,” Judge Jennifer Thurston of the US District Court for the Eastern District of California said.

The federal government had argued the stops and arrests were justified because the group of people attempted to flee the parking lot when agents ...