California judge holds Homeland Security in contempt in case over LA immigration sweeps

A federal judge on Tuesday held the Department of Homeland Security in contempt for failing to disclose cellphone records, according to CalMatters. The order, issued in January, required the department to provide digital copies of communications from personal and government phones used by over eight hundred agents during Operation At Large, a Trump administration immigration crackdown in twenty twenty-five. Attorneys from the American Civil Liberties Union argue those phones contain evidence that federal agents engaged in racial profiling — using racial slurs like 'wet' and 'tonks' to target working-class Latinos for detention. When DHS admitted in June they'd processed only three phones every two weeks — a pace that would take nearly four years to complete — the judge imposed a daily fine of five hundred dollars until the department complies. The ACLU says the government is violating both the Constitution on the streets and court orders by withholding evidence of those violations.

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