Mayor Ashleigh Aitken said, “Indiscriminate and inhumane immigration enforcement has left residents in fear, businesses without customers and our community and economy shaken.”

On the heels of major shows of force by federal immigration agents in Southern California, a judge is set to rule in a lawsuit seeking to halt immigration raids in Los Angeles.

Pomona plans to join a federal lawsuit that seeks to prohibit immigration enforcement operations performed without probable cause. In an emergency meeting July 11, the council voted 6-0 with Councilmember Debra Martin absent to join the class-action suit originally filed by the American Civil Liberties Union and a few other civil rights groups on behalf of five California residents.

Santa Ana is the only Orange County city to participate in the lawsuit so far, joining Los Angeles County and eight other cities.

The ACLU's federal lawsuit claims the Trump administration's aggressive immigration enforcement operations violate the Constitution.

A federal judge on Friday ordered the Trump administration to halt indiscriminate immigration stops and arrests in seven California counties, including Los Angeles. Immigrant

California's AG Rob Bonta alerted against housing discrimination by landlords based on immigration status, emphasizing tenant protections and legal consequences for such actions.

ACLU attorneys urged a federal judge in a downtown Los Angeles courtroom to temporarily block what they describe as a wave of unconstitutional immigration raids sweeping across Southern California.

DHS said the law enforcement activity was part of an investigation into immigration and potential child labor violations.