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AG Raúl Torrez Pushes Back on SCOTUS Ruling Giving ICE Green Light to Sweeps Based on Race, Language
The Supreme Court's 6-3 ruling permits ICE to use race and language factors for detentions, reversing lower court restrictions and sparking civil rights concerns nationwide.
- On Monday, September 8, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 to allow ICE agents to resume roving patrols in California using factors such as race, language, and location for detentions.
- This ruling overturned lower courts' temporary restraining orders that had barred such patrols, citing violations of Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable searches.
- New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez condemned the decision as unconscionable, asserting it insults residents by permitting stops based on skin color, language, and work, and threatens constitutional rights.
- Legal experts like KOAT's John Day stated the ruling opens the door for nationwide racial profiling, while Justice Brett Kavanaugh clarified ethnicity alone cannot justify suspicion but can be a relevant factor with others.
- The decision permits expanded immigration raids that may increase confrontations and civil rights concerns, especially in states with large Hispanic populations such as California and New Mexico.
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The Supreme Court Versus the Fourteenth Amendment
Federal agents can now detain persons based on the social-coloring of their skin. A recent Supreme Court decision now allows immigration stops based on race and ethnicity. The Supreme Court issued a temporary order that overturned a lower court’s restriction on immigration enforcement practices. This lower court order had barred federal agents from stopping and detaining people based solely on factors like their race, language or work type. Th…
The Supreme Court reminded us again that court decisions can have effects that feel far beyond the bench. With its recent ruling on immigration patrols in Los Angeles, the court allowed race, language, and employment to be factors to stop someone.What for some is to apply the law, for others sounds like opening the door to systematic discrimination.And in a city where one in three inhabitants is foreign, the implications are immediate and visibl…
US Supreme Court’s shadow docket attack on the Constitution
Last week’s unexplained ruling that vacated a lower court injunction against ICE seizures of people based on ethnicity, language or accents, employment or whereabouts is emblematic of the Supreme Court majority’s use of the “shadow docket” to dismantle the Constitution and pave the way for dictatorship.
Wash. AG warns of ‘race-based policing’ after Supreme Court decision
Washington Attorney General Nick Brown warned of possible race-based policing across this country” and a rollback of decades of civil rights progress following a U.S. Supreme Court decision this week that authorized federal immigration enforcement in Los Angeles to consider race and ethnicity in determining who they stop and question.
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