By Greg Stohr, Bloomberg

The Trump administration asked the US Supreme Court to lift restrictions on a Los Angeles-area immigration crackdown that opponents say relies on racial profiling to decide which people to detain and question.

In a court filing Thursday, the Department of Homeland Security said a federal trial judge overstepped her authority by barring Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents from detaining people without “reasonable suspicion” that they are in the country illegally.

The emergency request will test the high court on a key aspect of President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement push. US District Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong’s July 11 order bars agents from targeting migrants at places where they often look for day labor, such as Home Depot parking lot

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