A group of Quaker congregations, as well as the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship and the Sikh Temple of Sacramento, have sued the Trump administration to prevent deportation raids occurring in places of worship. The Department of Homeland Security announced it would remove previous limitations on where Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents could conduct deportation raids by rescinding a previous policy to not conduct raids in "sensitive locations," particularly places of worship and religious ceremonies. The plaintiffs argued that the new rule allowing ICE raids on religious sites violated their congregants' First Amendment right to religious freedom and ought to be declared unconstitutional and unenforceable.
