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LOS ANGELES - A district judge has approved a class action settlement that bars immigration officials from posing as local and state law enforcement when performing operations at homes in the Los Angeles area.

What we know:

U.S. District Judge Otis Wright II approved the class action settlement this week.

Under the terms of the agreement, ICE officers are not allowed to use "deceptive ruses" during operations at homes in the Los Angeles area, including identifying themselves as state, local or other law enforcement officials.

The approved agreement prohibits local ICE officers from things like:

The agreement also requires officers to have clear physical identifiers marking them as "ICE" whenever they're wearing gear that marks them as "Police," to verbally identify

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