The Center for Policing Equity filed an amicus brief alongside the Cato Institute and the Law Enforcement Action Partnership in support of the United Farm Workers of America (UFW) and their lawsuit against Border Patrol. The lawsuit seeks to stop Border Patrol agents from unconstitutionally targeting people based on their ethnicity in Kern County, California as part of “Operation Return to Sender,” which has undermined community trust in law enforcement and compromised public safety by pulling police officers and federal officials away from operations targeting violent crimes.
Cato, along with the Law Enforcement Action Partnership and Center for Policing Equity, has filed an amicus brief in support of UFW. Absent the preliminary injunction, federal agents plan to resume stopping Latinos en masse without reasonable suspicion, arresting them without a warrant or probable cause that they pose a flight risk, and coercing them into summary expulsion from the United States. The Ninth Circuit should affirm the preliminary injunction.
Read more on the Cato Institute’s website.