Mayor Ashleigh Aitken said, “Indiscriminate and inhumane immigration enforcement has left residents in fear, businesses without customers and our community and economy shaken.”

On the heels of major shows of force by federal immigration agents in Southern California, a judge is set to rule in a lawsuit seeking to halt immigration raids in Los Angeles.

The ACLU's federal lawsuit claims the Trump administration's aggressive immigration enforcement operations violate the Constitution.

Newman was co-counsel on a lawsuit that won a temporary restraining order against the indiscriminate immigration raids that have afflicted Southern California since June. He also represents the family of Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

Pomona plans to join a federal lawsuit that seeks to prohibit immigration enforcement operations performed without probable cause. In an emergency meeting July 11, the council voted 6-0 with Councilmember Debra Martin absent to join the class-action suit originally filed by the American Civil Liberties Union and a few other civil rights groups on behalf of five California residents.

The city of Los Angeles and other Southern California municipalities are joining a lawsuit against President Donald Trump's administration aimed at halting immigration raids that have spread panic among immigrant communities and sparked widespread protests.

Santa Ana is the only Orange County city to participate in the lawsuit so far, joining Los Angeles County and eight other cities.