The Supreme Court ruled on Monday that Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers can resume sweeping raids in Los Angeles of the kind that prompted mass protests in June.

The ruling reverses an earlier restraining order that was intended to limit sweeping ICE raids in the region. It’s the latest in a series of twists in immigration cases nationwide, and future rulings may change the picture further.

Here’s an understanding of its impact as of Monday.

What the case is about

In July, a judge in a California District Court granted a restraining order against federal agents’ “roving patrols.” In her decision, judge Maame E. Frimpong wrote that the ICE arrests violated the Fourth Amendment, because they were motivated by the race, language, or occupation of the people detained.

Because

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