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A federal judge is expected to make a decision Friday in an American Civil Liberties Union Lawsuit that is aimed at halting the Trump administration's immigration enforcement operations in Southern California.

In the legal filing, the ACLU and immigrant rights groups claim that federal agents are violating the Constitution by arresting people solely based on skin color, performing raids without warrants and denying legal counsel to detainees.

Lawyers for the Trump administration deny the claims. The Department of Homeland Security has not commented on the case. However, the agency has repeatedly said on social media that its agents are targeting criminals. The judge in the case, whom President Biden appointed, appeared critical of the Trump administration's arguments, according to the Associated Press.

"What we have been seeing throughout Southern California is the federal government, with their masked, armed goons, running up on individuals and community members, stopping them, taking them in, arresting them and then asking questions later," ACLU attorney Mohammad Tajsar said.

At the center of the federal lawsuit is Montebello man Brian Gavidia, who was detained by immigration agents last month.

"One thing I would like to highlight was the fact that even though after I stated and proved I was American, they took away my phone," Gavidia said outside the courthouse in Los Angeles.

After hearing arguments on Thursday, the judge indicated that she would like to issue a ruling by tomorrow," Tajsar said.

Los Angeles, along with seven other cities and L.A. County, joined the ACLU's lawsuit earlier this week, claiming the immigration raids also violate a Constitutional amendment that protects states' rights to run their judicial systems.

"Essentially, what the challengers are arguing here isn't that the Trump administration just lacks the power to enforce immigration law but that they're doing it the wrong way, and they're doing it in a way that violates constitutional provisions like the due process clause," Loyola Law professor Jessica Levinson said.

In addition to the city and county of L.A., the coalition of cities joining the lawsuit includes Culver City, Montebello, Monterey Park, Pasadena, Pico Rivera, Santa Monica and West Hollywood.

"It's been more than a month since Angelenos awoke to a completely frightening and new reality on our city streets," L.A. City Attorney Hydee Feldstein Soto said. "We are here today because of the tactics and the disproportionate force being used by the federal government in our communities. We stand as one community. These unconstitutional roundups and raids cannot be allowed to continue. This cannot be the new normal."

One of the attorneys who is representing the municipalities is former U.S. Attorney Martin Estrada, whom President Biden appointed.

The lawsuit also claims that ICE operations have cost the cities tens of millions of dollars in expenses, including overtime. Since enforcement actions ramped up on June 6, L.A. County has incurred $9 million in extra costs, stemming from lost tax revenue and law enforcement resources, according to the Office of County Counsel. L.A. County officials likened the economic impact on the region to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Since operations began in June, ICE and CBP have arrested 2,792 people in the L.A. area, according to DHS.

Tom Wait

Tom Wait joined CBS2 and KCAL9 in March 2013 as a general assignment reporter. He covers the Los Angeles metro area and the Inland Empire. He also anchors our streaming network, CBS News Los Angeles. A Southern California native, Tom has worked in New York City, Detroit and Kansas City, Missouri, before coming home.

LOS ANGELES — A farmworker at a Southern California cannabis farm is in critical condition after being injured during a chaotic immigration raid by federal officers, local officials said Friday.

Jaime Alanis Garcia is hospitalized at Ventura County Medical Center and remains in critical condition, county officials said in a statement authorized by the man's family.

His family told NBC Los Angeles that the man is on life support using an assistive breathing machine and has "catastrophic" injuries. He has a broken neck, broken skull and a severed artery, a niece said.

The United Farm Workers had previously said Garcia, an employee of Glass House Farms, died after falling some 30 feet.

“These violent and cruel federal actions terrorize American communities, disrupt the American food supply chain, threaten lives and separate families,” UFW President Teresa Romero said in a statement to NBC News.

Immigration officials said in a statement that Garcia was not in federal custody at the time of the fall.

“Although he was not being pursued by law enforcement, this individual climbed up to the roof of a green house and fell 30 feet,” Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said. “CBP immediately called a medivac to the scene to get him care as quickly as possible.”

Outside federal agents lobbed less-lethal weapons and tear gas at protesters who gathered at the Camarillo grow house Thursday while employees were being rounded up and arrested inside.

Officers pepper-sprayed a disabled U.S. Army veteran who served in Iraq and works as a security guard at the facility, the man's wife told NBC News.

George Retes complied with federal officers when he arrived to check on friends and colleagues who might have been affected by the raids, she said, but instead he was arrested on suspicion of assault, according to immigration officials. A hearing is scheduled Monday.

“He wasn’t even a protester,” Guadalupe Torres said of her husband. “They smashed his window, and after they smashed his window, they pepper-sprayed him.”

Aerial footage from NBC Los Angeles showed farm equipment being loaded up into tow trucks and people standing around in handcuffs.

President Donald Trump said in a Truth Social post Friday night that he watched the protests “in disbelief” as unruly demonstrators threw rock and bricks at cars belonging to federal agents. He directed Homeland Security and immigration officials to use “whatever means is necessary” to arrest people who do not obey the law.

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At a cultivation center in Carpinteria owned by Glass House Farms, manager Edgar Rodriguez said federal officers assaulted and handcuffed him after he repeatedly asked them to identify themselves and provide a warrant.

Rodriguez was standing behind a window when 10 unidentified men in fatigues arrived Thursday morning in unmarked cars and one armored vehicle.

Rodriguez, a U.S. citizen, said he asked the men several times to identify themselves and provide a reason for arriving heavily armed. The officers refused and responded by saying they were “not ICE” but did not specify which agency they were from.

One of the officers can be seen in video obtained exclusively by NBC News attempting to coax Rodriguez outside by telling him he wouldn’t be harmed.

“I’m just trying to talk to you. We’re not here for you,” the officer said in the video. “We have a federal warrant. We have a right to be here. Please come out.”

“I got you,” the officer said as Rodriguez began to tentatively leave his post.

Once outside, tensions escalated.

Rodriguez was led by the federal officers toward dumpsters, where the same officer who had told him not to worry slapped Rodriguez's cellphone from his hands.

Two other officers then pushed him to the ground, Rodriguez said. His phone fell, and voices can be heard arguing in the background.

Rodriguez said he was handcuffed for more than an hour, and one officer twisted his arm behind his back. The officers knelt on his neck and head, he said, and he began to lose feeling in his hands. He later went to a hospital covered in scratches and bruises, he said.

Rodriguez said he saw at least 10 employees get arrested, all of them in their 40s to their 60s. He said several had work visas and have been in the U.S. for more than 20 years.

"They were really scared," he said. "They kept saying they didn't do anything wrong, that they had visas."

The indoor cannabis farm where Rodriguez works was one of two Glass House properties raided by federal officers on Thursday.

In Camarillo, about 40 minutes away, the other enforcement operation drew hundreds of protesters outside the 5.5 million-square-foot facility.

Some 200 people were arrested in the two operations, the Department of Homeland Security said in a statement.

Several workers including U.S. citizens, "remain unaccounted for," the United Farm Workers said. Employees were held on site for eight hours or more, the labor union said.

U.S. citizens were released only after agreeing to delete videos and photos of the raid from their phones, the UFW added.

The FBI is offering a $50,000 reward for information on a person who appeared to fire a pistol at federal officers. The U.S. attorney in Los Angeles, Bill Essayli, said it occurred around 2:30 p.m. Thursday outside the Camarillo grow house.

“While ICE and CBP officers are being assaulted by rioters and dodging bullets to save children, Sanctuary politicians are demonizing ICE and CBP,” Essayli said in a statement. “We will prosecute to the fullest extent of the law anyone who assaults or doxes federal law enforcement.”

U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Rodney Scott posted a photo on X Friday of what appeared to be 10 young people detained at the Camarillo farm.

"These are the juveniles found in the marijuana facility — almost all unaccompanied, one as young as 14. California are you ready to partner with us to stop child exploitation?" the post read.

Glass House said in a statement on X that it "never knowingly violated applicable hiring practices and does not and has never employed minors."

The UFW said it was aware of the reports and demanded legal representation for the minors.

"To be clear, detaining and deporting children is not a solution for child labor," the union said in a statement.

Rodriguez said Glass House has a policy of only employing people who are at least 21 years old, and he could not personally identify the people in the photo, whose faces were blurred.

He said "there are no underage workers" at the two facilities he manages in Carpinteria.

“I am absolutely positive of that,” he said.

The raids Thursday came after more than a month of confrontations between the Trump administration and mass deportation protesters.

The protests have occasionally shut down parts of Los Angeles and its many immigrant-majority communities, where many residents say they are afraid to go to work.

On Friday, Mayor Karen Bass signed a directive requiring city departments to submit preparedness plans outlining how employees, including contractors, should respond if approached by federal immigration agents. The goal, she said, is to ensure that residents and city workers know their rights and can safely access services without fear.

Alicia Victoria Lozano

Alicia Victoria Lozano is a California-based reporter for NBC News focusing on climate change, wildfires and the changing politics of drug laws.

Liz Kreutz, Stephanie Fuerte and David Douglas contributed.

Los Angeles city and county officials working on the 2028 Summer Olympics discussed details about tourism, their hopes for the economic benefits of the mega-event and lessons learned from the recent Paris Games at the first state Senate committee hearing Thursday for the massive organizing effort.

But largely absent from the discussion was how the massive federal immigration crackdown in L.A. and the international attention it is drawing could affect the event — and the perceptions of potential visitors.

At the three-hour hearing in Sacramento, Ryan Becker, a senior vice president at the tourism group Visit California, described the challenges to attract visitors to the state for the Olympics — although the scenario may change in three years.

At the moment, he said, a strong U.S. dollar makes it much more expensive for international travelers to come to California, while there are concerns about safety and access into the United States.

“Some headlines about border detainment and aggressive enforcement action are certainly heightening concern and exacerbating some longer-standing issues we’ve had at the federal level,” he said, referencing concerns about long visa wait times for would-be U.S. visitors.

Overall, international travel is expected to be down more than 9% in California this year, the first overall tourist decline since 2020, Becker said.

The committee, which is focused on major sporting events, is chaired by Sen. Ben Allen (D-Santa Monica).

Panelists talked about the potential economic boost from visitors eating in restaurants and staying in hotels during and after the 2028 Games.

Organizers with LA28, the private entity overseeing the Games, are responsible for raising and spending the $7 billion needed to host the massive event. Although LA28 is paying for the cost of the Olympics, L.A. taxpayers face financial risk.

If LA28 sees cost overruns or revenue shortfalls, the city will be responsible for the first $270 million, the state will pay for the next $270 million and the city would be on the hook for anything beyond that.

Becker provided senators an update on the tourism numbers from the 2024 Paris Olympics, where 85% of attendees were from France and 15% from other countries, he said.

He also said that major attractions, including the Louvre Museum, saw large dips in visitors during the Olympics, suggesting that visitors weren’t interested in the typical tourist spots.

Besides an economic boost, the 2028 Olympics will offer a “refreshed global image of California as the most welcoming destination in the nation,” he said.

Leaders at LA28 have stayed mostly silent about President Trump’s recent immigration sweeps over the last month — a contrast to the outpouring of anger from local and state politicians. After the hearing on Thursday, the group declined to comment to The Times about the crackdown.

On Friday, a spokesperson for LA28 pointed to comments made last month by LA28 Chief Executive Reynold Hoover, who discussed security issues before the U.S. Senate’s Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs subcommittee. At the time, widespread protests were underway in L.A. over the immigration raids.

Referencing the events in L.A., Hoover told the subcommittee: “Let me just be clear: Security and safety are our top priorities, leading to and during Games time, and we are committed to working with security agencies from local, state and federal levels to ensure a safe and secure Games.”

Hoover also appeared at Thursday’s panel, describing how the Olympic torch will travel through the 50 states for about 100 days before the Games.

Another panelist, Paul Krekorian, who heads the city’s planning for the Olympics, said that city officials want to add bathrooms, shade structures and water facilities around several neighborhoods that have Olympic venues.

Streets need to be accessible as millions of people converge on the city, he said.

However, Krekorian acknowledged the city’s fiscal constraints as it seeks to improve its infrastructure in the coming years.

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Temperatures are gradually falling in Southern California as an area of low pressure moves in to help cool the region a bit.

For many areas, temperatures will dip on Thursday before another gradual warmup heading into the weekend due to a big dome of high pressure building in the area very strongly. That high pressure will continue to build, bringing some very hot weather later next week.

There's a chance for isolated showers or thunderstorms for some mountain and desert regions on Wednesday.

Los Angeles and Orange counties Wednesday will see morning clouds and afternoon sunshine, along with a high of 79 degrees and a low of 61. Enjoy mild temperatures for the rest of the week before a gradual warmup begins over the weekend.

The valleys and Inland Empire Wednesday will see a high of 87 degrees and a low of 60. Temperatures are expected to return to the 90s by Saturday.

Beaches Wednesday will see morning clouds and afternoon sunshine, along with a high of 72 degrees and a low of 60. Highs will be in the mid-to-low 70s all week before a gradual warmup hits over the weekend.

The mountains Wednesday will see a high of 78 degrees and a low of 45, along with a 10% chance for showers or thunderstorms.

Deserts Wednesday will see a high of 96 and a low of 64. Palm Springs is expected to hit a high of 109.

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Los Angeles, CA (July 12, 2025) – First responders, including paramedics, assessed and treated individuals hurt in a vehicle crash that occurred early Saturday afternoon on W 39th St. The accident was reported around 1:10 p.m., prompting an immediate response from Los Angeles Fire and Rescue.

The collision took place in the Vermont Square neighborhood of South Los Angeles, near the 1000 block of W 39th St. Although details about the specific vehicles involved have not been made public, the impact resulted in at least one person suffering a variety of injuries. Emergency crews worked quickly to secure the scene and assist those affected by the crash.

Authorities have not released further information on the number of individuals transported for additional treatment or the circumstances leading up to the incident. The cause of the collision remains under investigation at this time.

Our thoughts are with everyone impacted by this crash.

Car Accidents and Community Safety in California

Vehicle crashes are unfortunately common throughout Los Angeles and California at large, often resulting in injuries that can range from minor to life-altering. In densely populated areas like Vermont Square, narrow residential roads and increased traffic volumes can contribute to the frequency of such accidents.

According to data from the California Highway Patrol’s SWITRS report, tens of thousands of injury-causing collisions are reported annually in Los Angeles County alone. Many of these accidents stem from preventable behaviors such as distracted driving, speeding, or failure to yield at intersections.

Saturday’s crash on W 39th St serves as a stark reminder of how quickly an everyday drive can turn into a dangerous situation. For residents living in neighborhoods with high vehicle and pedestrian traffic, it’s essential to remain vigilant and adhere strictly to traffic laws.

Those involved in traffic accidents—whether as drivers, passengers, or pedestrians—should prioritize medical attention, thoroughly document the scene, and consider speaking with professionals who can help them recover compensation for their injuries and losses. Public cooperation can also play a significant role in helping investigators determine the facts surrounding such incidents.

If you or someone you know has been injured in a crash, reach out to Local Accident Reports for assistance.

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