Federal judge allows immigration agents to conduct operations at houses of worship

A federal judge on Friday allowed federal immigration officials to conduct enforcement operations at houses of worship. 

The ruling was in response to a lawsuit by roughly two dozen Jewish and Christian groups asking the courts to stop the Trump administration from conducting illegal-immigration raids in synagogues and churches.

Judge Dabney Friedrich of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, said there hadn't been enough enforcement actions and the plaintiffs hadn't shown they had suffered legal harm, according to The Associated Press. 

“At least at this juncture and on this record, the plaintiffs have not made the requisite showing of a ‘credible threat’ of enforcement,” Friedrich, appointed by President Donald Trump, wrote in his ruling. "Nor does the present record show that places of worship are being singled out as special targets," as part of Trump's aggressive effort to remove people from the United States who are here illegally.