"Decision effectively allows immigration agents to use racial profiling to detain people, greenlighting sweeping raids. The United States Supreme Court has ruled that the administration of President Donald Trump can resume sweeping immigration raids in the city of Los Angeles, casting aside concerns over potential civil liberties violations. In a 6-3 decision, the conservative-majority court rolled back restrictions on the administration's aggressive approach to immigration raids, allowing agents to target people based on factors such as language and ethnicity."
"Writing a dissent for the liberal minority, Justice Sonia Sotomayor said that the ruling has all but declared that all Latinos, US 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. The highest US court has rarely placed limits on the Trump administration's assertions of executive authority."
"Frimpong had ruled that immigration agents could not target people based on factors such as what language they were speaking or their ethnicity, type of job, or location. The Trump administration had argued that the ruling wrongly restrained immigration enforcement efforts, which have sometimes swept up and detained US citizens as well as people in the US without legal status."
The Supreme Court issued a 6-3 decision permitting federal immigration agents to resume broad raids in Los Angeles and removing prior restrictions on enforcement methods. The ruling allows agents to consider factors such as language, ethnicity, job type, and location when selecting targets. A dissent warned that Latino workers in low-wage jobs could be routinely seized, detained, and required to prove legal status. A district judge had previously found substantial evidence of constitutional rights violations and barred targeting based on language, ethnicity, job, or location. The administration argued that those limits unduly hindered immigration enforcement, which has at times detained both citizens and noncitizens.
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