President Donald Trump's administration on Thursday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to lift a lower court order that barred U.S. government agents from making immigration-related arrests in Los Angeles based on tactics that critics have called racial profiling.

The Justice Department called a lower-court order that limited the raids “a straitjacket" for law enforcement.

The Trump administration Thursday appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court in an attempt to lift a court order preventing aggressive federal immigration enforcement in the Los Angeles area. A proposed class action lawsuit alleges federal agents made immigration arrests without probable cause,