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The suit followed a January operation in Kern County called “Operation Return to Sender,” in which agents swarmed a Home Depot and Latino market, among other areas frequented by laborers.

Restaurants and other businesses cannot find immigrants and other laborers to hire.

The government granted a path to legal status to laborers like Sánchez-Gordon’s father that no longer exists.

At the Pasadena Home Depot, where day laborers still gather despite the risk of raids, three men held out hope for work.

But the two sides disagreed over whether agents may stop people because they appear to be Latinos and work as day laborers, at car washes or other low-wage jobs.