No Bond, No Burden, No Bother: Lawfare Hits ICE in California, Again

American Thinker ^ | 18 Jul, 2025 | Charlton Allen

[MtnClimber]

The Rules are ghosted—once more—in California’s latest episode of immigration lawfare.

When federal courts issue emergency orders—like temporary restraining orders (TROs) or preliminary injunctions—Rule 65(c) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure imposes a clear requirement:

The court may issue a preliminary injunction or a temporary restraining order only if the movant gives security in an amount that the court considers proper to pay the costs and damages sustained by any party found to have been wrongfully enjoined or restrained [emphasis added].

But in Vasquez-Perdomo v. Noem, Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong—a Biden appointee in the Central District of California—blithely casts this requirement aside.

No bond. No substantive cost analysis. Just a sweeping TRO and a shrug.

And in doing so, Judge Frimpong left a hole so yawning you could cruise a 1941 Packard Clipper through it—with the doors flung open and the hood up—and that’s saying something, since the 1941 Clipper was the widest car in production at the time and the first American automobile deliberately engineered to be wider than it was tall.

According to the court, there was “no realistic likelihood of harm” to the government. The order, she reasoned, merely compels ICE to comply with its existing attorney visitation protocols and applicable law.

That framing is surgically precise in what it considers—and what it ignores.

This TRO isn’t a procedural pause button—what most TROs are used for—it’s a tactical rewire of how ICE conducts field operations in the LA metro area.

It imposes sweeping restrictions: narrowing what officers may consider in forming reasonable suspicion, limiting where and how they operate, and mandating new documentation protocols—all under the court’s supervision and opposing counsel’s review.

That’s far beyond adherence to internal agency policy. It’s micromanagement by judicial decree, and it’s all shared with activist NGOs and other adversarial parties

[FlingWingFlyer]

The Ghanaian “Dipstick Judge” Freakshow strikes again. Joe Pedo couldn’t find an American to take this job. So they gave it to a freakshow, white-dude hating Ghanaian.

[Does so]

“Easily seats six comfortably. “
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Back when American families could be yuge...

[1FreeAmerican]

OK, so you have a $120k car.

How much do you spend on your cameras? What kind?

I was a photo major in college circa ‘75/76. I had a Nikon F, a couple of Mamiya TLR’s with extra wide angle lens’, a 35mm Minolta, and a couple of others that I can’t remember.

I sold all that stuff as the college had these Calumet 4x5 view cameras for us to use. These took the best B&W pic’s of them all - better than using PanX in the 35’s and the TLR’s.

Canon came out with the first auto at that time - the AE-1.

Yes, I’m getting old. Thinking of getting a new camera. The iPhone 15 Pro does pretty good though.