Supreme Court Upholds Immigration Patrols in Los Angeles
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Supreme Court Backs Trump Administration on Immigration Stops
WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court ruled Monday for the Trump administration and agreed U.S.immigration agents may stop and detain anyone they suspect is in the U.S.illegally based on little more than working at a car wash, speaking Spanish or having brown skin.
In a 6-3 vote, the justices granted an emergency appeal and lifted a Los Angeles judge’s order that barred “roving patrols” from snatching people off Southern California streets based on how they look, what language they speak, what work they do or where they happen to be.
In a concurring opinion,Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh said federal law says “immigration officers ‘may briefly detain’ an individual ‘for questioning’ if they have ‘a reasonable suspicion, based on specific articulable facts, that the person being questioned … is an alien illegally in the United States’.”
“Immigration stops based on reasonable suspicion of illegal presence have been an crucial component of U.S. immigration enforcement for decades, across several presidential administrations,” he said.
The three liberal justices dissented.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor called the decision “yet another grave misuse of our emergency docket. We should not have to live in a country where the government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job. Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost,I dissent.”
“The Government… has all but declared that all Latinos, U.S. citizens or not, who work low wage jobs are fair game to be seized at any time, taken away from work, and held until they provide proof of their legal status to the agents’ satisfaction,” Sotomayor wrote.
Sotomayor also disagreed with Kavanaugh’s assertions.
“Immigration agents are not conducting ’brief stops for questioning,’ as the concurrence would like to believe. They are seizing people using firearms, physical violence, and warehouse detentions,” she wrote. “Nor are undocumented immigrants the only ones harmed by the Government’s conduct. United States citizens are also being seized, taken from their jobs, and prevented from working to support themselves and their families.”
The decision is a important victory for President Trump, clearing the way for his oft-promised “largest Mass Deportation Operation” in American history.
Beginning in early june, Trump’s appointees targeted Los Angeles with aggressive street sweeps that ensnared longtime residents, legal immigrants and even U.S. citizens.
A coalition of civil rights groups and local attorneys challenged the cases of three immigrants and two U.S. citizens caught up in the chaotic arrests, claiming they’d been grabbed without reasonable suspicion – a violation of the 4th amendment’s ban on unreasonable searches and seizures.
On july 11, U.S. District judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong issued a temporary restraining order barring stops based solely on race or ethnicity, language, location or employment, either alone or in combination.
On July 28, the