Immigrant workers are central to recovery efforts in neighborhoods burned in the January wildfires, but recent raids have led some to stay home.

The Trump administration's sweeping immigration raids in Southern California faced a legal roadblock on Friday, as the White House looks to ramp up similar operations across the country using a surge of resources recently approved by Congress.

U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California Bill Essayli skewered Democrat California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday for railing

The United Farm Workers confirmed a farmworker's death after immigration raids at Glass House Farms, where authorities found illegal immigrant minors.

The judge said there was "a mountain of evidence" that federal agents had arrested people solely based on characteristics such as race, employment and accent.

As word spread among Catholics that immigration agents were visiting places of worship to carry out deportations, the pews inside the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels Catholic Church in downtown Los Angeles became less and less crowded.

The order on Friday temporarily blocked the Trump administration from conducting the arrests without “reasonable suspicion” that its targets were in the country illegally.