Federal judge slams Border Patrol: 'You can't just walk up to people with brown skin'

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Raw Story

April 29, 2025 8:15PM ET


A federal judge in California issued an injunction on Tuesday preventing the U.S. Border Patrol in that district from making most warrantless arrests.

According to Cal Matters, "The ruling came in response to an American Civil Liberties Union lawsuit filed after the El Centro Border Patrol traveled to Kern County to conduct a three-day sweep in January, detaining day laborers, farm workers and others in a Home Depot parking lot, outside a convenience store and along a highway between orchards."

U.S. District Court Judge Jennifer Thurston scorched the Border Patrol's policies, saying, "You just can’t walk up to people with brown skin and say give me your papers."

As part of the order, Thurston held that "Border Patrol is enjoined from conducting detentive stops in this District unless, pre-stop, the detaining agent has reasonable suspicion that the person to be stopped is a noncitizen who is present within the United States in violation of U.S. immigration law, as required by the Fourth Amendment," and that "Border patrol is enjoined from effecting warrantless arrests in this District unless, pre-arrest, the arresting agent has probable cause to believe that the noncitizen being arrested is likely to escape before a warrant is obtained."

Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/border-patrol-2671865798/

[Walleye]

1. Yeah, but they think if the judge is a woman, they can just ignore her. Or else slander a male judge.

Everything is reduced to a personal and petty level with these people. The fact of Americans acting like Nazi storm troopers doesn’t really enter their heads. Did I hear this correctly? We are helping refugees from South Africa that happened to be white? I thought our country was full and we’re broke.

[tanyev]

4. Country's full, we're broke, but we also need lots more (white) babies.

Racist hypocrites.

[moniss]

2. Let's see if they try and

arrest her.

[Demovictory9]

3. In southern california, they waited until undocumented family went to the store

Arrested the family for deportation. While at the predominantly Hispanic store, they started checking every Brown person..

Seems so unconstitutional..

[Magoo48]

7. Unfortunately, and practically:

Our Constitution is simply another old piece of paper when no enforcement agency has the courage to stand up for it.

[sop]

5. "You just can't walk up to people with brown skin and say give me your papers."

Of course you can. It's called Police Profiling 101, taught in every police training academy in America. Local cops have been stopping, detaining, interrogating, searching, brutalizing and often killing black and brown citizens on our streets for years. Let's not pretend this is anything new.

[Cirsium]

13. Yes

Let's not pretend this is anything new.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

6. Your honor, could you hold out your arm against this chart ..

[tornado34jh]

8. There was a series on Investigation Discovery called "Most Evil"

It graded killers on this scale based on certain characteristics and motives, but did it for people in the 20th century. It included people like Ted Bundy, Marybeth Tinning, John List, and Gary Ridgway.

[cynical_idealist]

15. 47 is 47

[azureblue]

9. Let's see

ICE pull their crap in South Central LA

[wiggs]

10. Which of course means he directed them to walk up to brown people and demand papers. nt

[Ferrets are Cool]

11. Who is gonna stop them? That is the question that I keep asking.

[republianmushroom]

12. Yes they can, Judge, and they are doing so.

America land of the not so free, republican style of America.

[maxsolomon]

14. Note that Kern Co. is Bakersfield. El Centro is across the border from Mexicali.

El Centro has no Illegales?

[WestMichRad]

16. Well clearly they can do that.

Skin color chart: