Supreme Court Lifts Restrictions on L.A. Immigration Stops NYT | Top Stories By: Adam Liptak 8 September 2025 at 23:51 A federal judge had ordered agents not to make indiscriminate stops relying on factors like a person’s ethnicity or that they speak Spanish. © Stella Kalinina for The New York TimesAggressive enforcement operations in Los Angeles — including encounters captured on video that appeared to be roundups of random Hispanic people by armed agents — have set off protests and clashes in the area.