Religious groups who sued over the raids have not met the threshold for an injunction, the judge said.
A federal judge on April 11 declined to prevent Department of Homeland Security agents from conducting immigration raids at churches.
“At least at this juncture and on this record, the plaintiffs have not made the requisite showing of a ‘credible threat’ of enforcement,” U.S. District Judge Dabney Friedrich of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia wrote in an opinion. “Nor does the present record show that places of worship are being singled out as special targets.”
The ruling came in a case brought by religious groups, including the Mennonite Church USA.
They had said the federal government’s new policy, which allows agents to enter churches to carry out immigration enforcement, unconstitutionally interferes with their exercise of religion.
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