Former US Vice-President Kamala Harris came down sharply against the American Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) after a five-year-old child was taken to a detention centre in Texas.
The US Justice Department filed an appeal in the top court after a San Francisco-based federal district judge put the efforts on hold, finding they "appear predicated on negative stereotypes."
Masked agents arrested Badar Khan Suri, an Indian national and postdoctoral fellow, outside his home in Arlington's Rosslyn neighbourhood in Virginia on Monday night, his lawyer said in a lawsuit requesting his immediate release.