The Trump administration filed a petition to the Supreme Court on Thursday seeking a pause of a lower court's restrictions on federal officials' conduct of immigration operations in Southern California.

Solicitor General D. John Sauer requested the high court stay an order in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, which includes Los Angeles, that prevents federal immigration officers from relying on apparent race, language spoken, location, or job as sole reasons to inquire about a person’s immigration status.

Sauer claimed that the sweeping injunction, which an appeals court declined to stay last weekend, was unlawful in restricting federal immigration officers in an area with an estimated millions of illegal immigrants.

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