Civil Action Podcast

Civil Action: Ninth Circuit Stops Trump’s “3,000 Arrests Per Day” Quota

Attorneys Brian Kabateck and Shant Karnikian break down the Ninth Circuit’s victory affirming the temporary restraining order that stopped Trump’s illegal ICE raids targeting 47% of Los Angeles’s Latino population. They expose how Stephen Miller’s “3,000 arrests per day” quota led to constitutional violations where agents detained US citizens like Jason Brian Gavidia—slamming him against a fence and demanding to know what hospital he was born in—simply for being at an auto repair yard. The hosts reveal how Trump’s lawyers could only submit two weak declarations while plaintiffs provided 21 sworn statements of abuse, and how detainees were held in an underground “B-18” facility without lawyer access. They explain why this Fourth Amendment victory protects 20 million people across Central California from being stopped based solely on race, accent, location, or type of work—and why this “show me your papers” police state violates basic constitutional law that even a conservative Supreme Court will struggle to overturn.