Three Democrat-appointed federal appeals court judges on Monday demanded an explanation as to whether the Trump administration has an official policy that requires the daily arrests of 3,000 migrants.

The 90-minute hearing, before a panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco, California, concerned Justice Department attorneys’ request that a stay be issued regarding a Los Angeles federal judge’s earlier ruling that Immigration and Customs Enforcement activities were illegally conducted without reasonable suspicion.

U.S. District Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong earlier this month issued a temporary order preventing ICE agents and all others from using “apparent race or ethnicity” to determine potential enforcement actions.

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