SAN DIEGO (AP) - A federal judge has prohibited U.S. immigration authorities from relying on databases deemed faulty to ask law enforcement agencies to hold people in custody, a setback for the Trump administration that threatens to hamper how it carries out arrests.
The ruling applies only to parts of California, But it includes a federal operations center near Los Angeles that makes hold requests in 42 states and two U.S. territories.
From May 2015 to February 2016, 771, or 6%, of 12,797 requests that ICE issued were either for U.S. citizens or people who were not subject to deportation.
