Plaintiff Pedro Vasquez Perdomo, who was stopped and detained in Pasadena in June, speaks to the press on Monday, Aug. 4, 2025. He said he was chained and treated inhumanely during a press conference at the ACLU office in Los Angeles. He was reacting to a Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that denied the federal government’s request to halt a restraining order prohibiting federal agencies from racial profiling during raids in seven Southern California counties including Los Angeles. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)

Plaintiffs at the heart of the legal case pushing back on the Trump administration’s massive crackdown on illegal immigration in Southern California on Monday celebrated what they called a legal and moral victory, after an appeals court upheld a pa

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