US EditionThe Supreme Court Decision on ICE and Racial Profiling, Explained
The Supreme Court's 6-3 ruling reversed a lower court's injunction, allowing ICE to detain over 2,800 individuals during raids based on race, language, and location factors.
- On September 8, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 to lift a lower court injunction, allowing ICE to resume immigration raids in Los Angeles targeting people based on race, language, location, and employment.
- The decision reversed a July ruling by a federal judge who halted the raids, finding agents lacked reasonable suspicion and relied on four broad factors related to ethnicity, language, location, and job type.
- Armed and masked ICE agents had seized over 2,800 individuals at workplaces like car washes and farms, detaining them until they could prove lawful presence, often before questioning them.
- Justice Sonia Sotomayor dissented, stating the government treated Latinos and low-wage workers as 'fair game' for stops and seizures without proper suspicion, raising constitutional concerns about equal protection.
- The ruling permits broader use of ethnicity, language, and employment as factors in immigration enforcement and drew criticism for potentially undermining constitutional rights nationwide.
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Brett Kavanaugh’s Racial Profiling Apologia Is Bad and Embarrassing
Earlier this week, the Supreme Court handed down a one-page order that greenlit federal immigration officers’ use of blatant racial profiling when conducting armed raids in the Los Angeles area. A lower court had temporarily barred ICE from detaining people based solely on factors like “they are speaking Spanish” or “they are day laborers waiting outside Home Depot in the morning.” By blocking that lower court order, the members of the Court’s c…
Supreme Court greenlights ICE policy of racial profiling
WASHINGTON—By a 6-3 party-line vote, the GOP-named majority on the U.S. Supreme Court, this week, turned President Donald Trump’s ICE agents loose to prey upon not just Latinos but eventually everyone else in the United States. The ruling allows ICE to continue its rolling Los Angeles raids, including the kidnapping and disappearance of brown people, poor people looking for low-paid work at home repair outlets, restaurant workers, and many othe…
Supreme Court Lifts Restraints on ICE Operations in LA - Real News Now
The Supreme Court recently overturned restraints on ICE operations in Los Angeles. This sparked a storm of criticism from several California Democrats, long-standing adversaries of then-President Donald Trump. They described the Supreme Court’s decision as ‘un-American,’ inferring it could incite a ‘cycle of ethnic terror.’ They suggested that the Trump administration was intentionally targeting Latinos and others who do not fit the stereotypica…
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A Blinkered Supreme Court Blocks Relief from Racial Profiling
By now, it’s routine for the Supreme Court under Chief Justice John Roberts to misuse its so-called emergency docket to short-circuit lower court orders blocking the Trump administration’s aggressive anti-constitutionalism. But its decision this week to lift a lower court injunction barring Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents from conducting raids around Los Angeles by armed and masked agents engaged in racial profiling is among the…
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