LOS ANGELES — Plaintiffs in a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s crackdown on illegal immigration are hailing an appeals court ruling that upheld a decision temporarily barring federal agents from making arrests without probable cause.

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals denied the federal government’s request Aug. 1 to reverse the order prohibiting federal agencies — including the U.S. Department of Homeland Security — from continuing what U.S. District Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong of Los Angeles federal court determined were unlawful actions in Los Angeles and surrounding counties.

The roving raids targeting car washes, parking lots where day laborers gather and garment factories disrupted immigrant communities throughout the region for weeks in June and July, causin

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