Pasadena Mayor Victor Gordo late Friday, July 11, touted a federal judge’s ruling, which orders the Trump administration to halt indiscriminate immigration arrests in a region that includes Pasadena.

“In issuing the temporary restraining order, the court was thoughtful, analytical, and should bolster all of our well-placed belief that the Unites States of American is properly guided by the Constitution of the United States of America,”Gordo said.

Immigrant advocacy groups filed the lawsuit last week accusing President Donald Trump’s administration of systematically targeting brown-skinned people in Southern California during its ongoing immigration crackdown. The plaintiffs include three detained immigrants and two U.S. citizens, one who was held despite showing agents his identification.

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Late Friday, Los Angeles-based federal Judge Maame E. Frimpong issued the emergency orders, which are a temporary measure while the lawsuit proceeds, the day after a hearing during which advocacy groups argued that the government was violating the Fourth and Fifth amendments of the constitution.

She wrote in the order there was a “mountain of evidence” presented in the case that the federal government was committing the violations they were being accused of.

The lawsuits lead plaintiffs were apprehended in the city that Gordo leads.

Pedro Vasquez Perdomo, Carlos Alexander Osorto and Isaac Villegas Molina are all Pasadena residents who were sitting at a bus stop o across from a Winchell’s Donuts on the morning of June 18, waiting to be picked up to go to a job.

That’s when four cars suddenly descended on the spot, and about six masked agents wearing masks and armed, apprehended them, without immediately identifying themselves, according to the lawsuit filed by Public Counsel and the American Civil Liberties Union. No warrant was shown, the lawsuit alleges. They were ultimately booked and taken to a detention facility in downtown Los Angeles, where attorneys say they were detained in terrible conditions.

The three, all Pasadena residents, were the lead plaintiffs among several, including a Baldwin Hills man and another from East Los Angeles.

The lawsuit accused federal immigration officials from carrying out “roving patrols” and detaining people without warrants and regardless of whether they have actual proof the detainees are in the country illegally.

The order also bars agents from relying solely on factors such as race/ethnicity, speaking with an accent or being at locations such as bus stops, day laborer sites, car washes or agricultural sites as a basis for detaining people.

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In a separate order, Frimpong ordered immigration agencies to ensure detainees are provided with access to attorneys or legal representatives seven days a week, and they must be provided with access to confidential telephone calls with attorneys at no charge to the detainees — and those calls “shall not be screened, recorded or otherwise monitored.”

During a court hearing Thursday, Sean Skedzielewski, a government attorney, denied allegations that agents were conducting illegal detentions of immigrants, insisting that Department of Homeland Security enforcement activities are based on proper evidence and the “totality of the circumstances.”

But Frimpong appeared critical of the government’s stance, saying she wanted to hear more specifics and fewer generalities.

In his argument, Mohammad Tajsar, senior staff attorney with the ACLU Foundation of Southern California, told the court that most immigration stops do not happen to white people.

“It’s happening with people who appear Latino,” he said, adding that the government’s roving immigration agents “are stopping people and asking questions later.”

Frimpong said it appears that “high-level government officials” seem to approve of the tactics.

Pasadena is one of several Southern California cities hit by the ICE raids, which Trump administration officials say are necessary to rid the nation of the “worst of the worst” criminals who are not in the country illegally. But the unannounced raids have scared people in many immigrant-rich communities, shutting down local economies and marketplaces.

Advocates and local leaders say many of those apprehended are not the “dangerous criminals” that Trump officials have pledged to apprehend and deport.

L.A. Mayor Karen Bass also reacted to the ruling late Friday, echoing Gordo.

“Today, the Court ruled in favor of the United States Constitution, of American values and decency — this is an important step toward restoring safety, security and defending the rights of all Angelenos,” she said in a statment. “Los Angeles has been under assault by the Trump Administration as masked men grab people off the street, chase working people through parking lots and march through children’s summer camps. We went to court against the administration because we will never accept these outrageous and un-American acts as normal.”

Gordo put the massive crackdown in historical terms.

“If this doesn’t conjure up images of America’ past mistakes, that we should all strive to avoid, I’m not certain what will,” he said. “We should all keep in mind that history has a way of repeating itself, and is doing so before our very eyes.”

City News Service, the Associated Press and City Editor Ryan Carter contributed to this report.