Questions about whether the Trump administration has put arrest quotas on immigration enforcement agencies pervaded oral arguments before the Ninth Circuit Monday in a case over deportation raids in Los Angeles.
“I’m just trying to understand what would motivate the officers that did the roundup of aliens here to grab such a large number of people so quickly, and without marshaling reasonable suspicion to detain,” said Judge Ronald Gould, an appointee of former President Bill Clinton.
Attorney Yaakov Roth, representing the US, didn’t concede that agents were detaining people without reasonable suspicion. He said if there were such a quota ...