There is no right for the government to stop people on the street to ask for ID for no reason except that they look Mexican and live or work in a Mexican area. The courts will squash this faster than they did the travel ban. :lol:
They are asking for ID because they are looking for specific illegals, those that have been arrested and/or convicted of a crime, besides the crime of being here illegally in the first place.
CNN reported this (I also read the number "rounded up" was the same on other sites)
In Los Angeles, ICE said Friday that it had arrested about 160 people from a dozen countries during a five-day, five-county operation aimed at undocumented criminals, immigration fugitives and people who re-entered the United States illegally after deportation.
About 150 of the suspects have criminal histories, including felony convictions for serious or violent offenses, according to an ICE statement. There were 10 people with no criminal history but five had orders of removal or had been previously deported.
The ICE statement said the arrests were part of what it called a regular "enforcement surge." It denied reports about ICE checkpoints and random sweeps, calling them "false, dangerous, and irresponsible."
"These reports create panic and put communities and law enforcement personnel in unnecessary danger," the statement said.
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti issued a statement Friday night asking ICE for "greater transparency about ongoing operations" within the city.
ACLU Texas Executive Director Terri Burke told CNN that "raids" had been happening in Austin "the last few nights."
"It is not unlike some of the things Obama did, but it's ramped up and worse," Burke said.