Immigration Matters is a recurring series by César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández that analyzes the court’s immigration docket, highlighting emerging legal questions about new policy and enforcement practices.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem pushed back against the latest ruling by a federal judge against the Trump administration, vowing that it will be appealed. The ruling orders the administration to halt indiscriminate immigration stops and arrests in seven California counties.

The Trump administration on Monday asked a federal appeals court to pause a sweeping order from a California judge that required officials to stop making immigration arrests without probable cause in the southern part of the state.

There have been many legal challenges to President Trump's California immigration sweeps, but one in particular could dramatically alter the policy.

A White House spokesperson told CBS News Los Angeles that the order was a "gross overstep of judicial authority."

The DOJ fired 15 immigration judges last week despite a huge backlog of immigration cases. Immigration advocates are worried this will reduce people's access to due process.

Sen. Cory Booker has requested that Trump judicial nominee Emil Bove provide more details about his role in the DOJ's investigation into Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking case.

The appeal accused a lower court of ignoring the Supreme Court's recent ruling in "Trump v. CASA," which struck down universal injunctions.

Trump's massive spending packing is adding tens of billions for immigration enforcement and deportations. But immigration lawyers say it’s hard to imagine how that’ll happen with fewer judges on the bench.