(Bloomberg) — Federal immigration agents in Los Angeles can resume using tactics for now that critics say amount to racial profiling, after the US Supreme Court backed the Trump administration’s aggressive enforcement efforts.

Over three dissents from the court’s liberal-leaning justices, the conservative majority on Monday put on hold a federal district court order that barred Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents from questioning and detaining people based solely on their ethnicity, language, occupation or presence at a particular location.

The Supreme Court’s order will apply while the legal fight continues.

The majority of justices didn’t issue a joint opinion explaining the decision. Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote separately that he believed the Trump administration is likely t

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