Federal immigration agents have intensified enforcement actions in the Los Angeles area this week. Critics are upset and say the Trump administration is flaunting a temporary federal court order that set up racial profiling protections against enforcement methods based on appearance, language, and locations of contact. L.A. police had to shut down an enforcement protest Friday night that got out of control.

What began on Wednesday with a “Trojan horse” sweep at a Home Depot where agents hid inside a rented Penske truck to move up close to potential illegal aliens, has been followed, according to the Los Angeles Times, with a series of immigration enforcement stops, including two in the same day outside an L.A. metro area business.

The federal temporary restraining order covering immigration stops in California was upheld last Friday by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which led to an appeal by the Trump administration to the U.S. Supreme Court. The government said the ruling “threatens to upend immigration officials’ ability to enforce the immigration laws in the Central District of California by hanging the prospect of contempt over every investigative stop.”

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