Trump officials asked the justices to immediately halt the order from U.S. District Judge Maame E. Frimpong in Los Angeles. She found a “mountain of evidence” that enforcement tactics were violating the U.S. Constitution in what the plaintiffs called “roving patrols.”

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.

A lower court had ordered agents not to make indiscriminate stops relying on factors like race or speaking Spanish.