Posted on 09/08/2025 9:51:52 AM PDT by Red Badger
🚨 In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court pauses a lower court ruling that had prohibited the Trump administration from conducting roving immigration arrests across Los Angeles. pic.twitter.com/s1KMwyZW2D— Greg Price (@greg_price11) September 8, 2025
The activist judge who ruled that Immigration and Customs Enforcement was not allowed to fully enforce immigration law just got the Supreme Court smackdown of a lifetime.
From the LA Times:
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.
By a 6-3 margin, 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.
The biased LA Times for you! ICE is allowed to detain suspected criminal aliens and it's suddenly a scandal.
More from the LA Times:
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 important component of U. S. immigration enforcement for decades, across several presidential administrations,' he said.
The three far lefties dissented from the opinion, all 6 of the moderate and conservative judges ruled in favor of the Trump administration.
SCOTUS Opinion here:
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/25a169_5h25.pdf
Dissent by usual suspects here:
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/25a169_5h25.pdf#page=11
Half surprised coney Barrett went along
I’m thinking she is finally waking up to being conned by the Left.
Time will tell
"Would an ordinary American citizen (maybe one with a pale complexion, blond hair, and working at, say, a bank) feel unduly accosted or inconvenienced if he were stopped and asked about his American citizenship?"I wouldn't - and I couldn't be mistaken for your stereotypical Mexican at even a hundred paces!
Regards,
That is the Left's spin. They make it sound like some Latin American or East European secret police operation. Pull up, throw someone in a van and they're never heard from again.
Me too. It is too early to tell but l was concerned she would be way too illegal friendly.
Here, those circumstances include: that there is an extremely high number and percentage of illegal immigrants in the Los Angeles area; that those individuals tend to gather in certain locations to seek daily work; that those individuals often work in certain kinds of jobs, such as day labor, landscaping, agriculture, and construction, that do not require paperwork and are therefore especially attractive to illegal immigrants; and that many of those illegally in the Los Angeles area come from Mexico or Central America and do not speak much English. Cf. Brignoni-Ponce, 422 U. S., at 884–885 (listing “[a]ny number of factors” that contribute to reasonable suspicion of illegal presence). To be clear, apparent ethnicity alone cannot furnish reasonable suspicion; under this Court’s case law regarding immigration stops, however, it can be a “relevant factor” when considered along with other salient factors. Id., at 887.
Under this Court’s precedents, not to mention common sense, those circumstances taken together can constitute at least reasonable suspicion of illegal presence in the United States. Importantly, reasonable suspicion means only that immigration officers may briefly stop the individual and inquire about immigration status. If the person is a U. S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter. Only if the person is illegally in the United States may the stop lead to further immigration proceedings."
I worked with a Druze. That’s an Arab looking non-Muslim. He looked Arabic enough to pass himself off as a Sunni (Or, Shia, I don’t recall.) when it was needed to save his life. He was really upset that he got the full TSA treatment on his most recent flight. I suggested that perhaps TSA should just give everyone who looked like him an automatic pass because otherwise it would be racist. There was a long, pause. He said something along the lines of, “Okay, I see your point.” Because if there was someone who hated and distrusted Arabs, it was him.
Lawyers and drug companies advertising has been a bane on society for at least 20 years.
Wouldn't it be great if that was 7-2 or 8-1 by January 2029!
According to the left, law enforcement is prohibited from acting against Latino and black criminals because it might be "racial profiling" to notice that the vast majority of illegal aliens are Latinos and the vast majority of crimes in urban areas are committed by blacks.
I rarely see commercials but those two are the ones that piss off almost everyone. They are on so much that its grates on you...
It is a good example. The consequences have been disastrous but technically correct. Reminds me of the 19thA catastrophic and inevitable.
Sotomayor’s dissent, as a I suspected, follows the district court’s attempt to use ethnicity as a shield against law enforcement.
Yep. Enforcing the law against them is racist.
Kavanaugh used his 10-page concurrence to launch into a broader discussion about the debate around illegal immigration.
“To be sure, I recognize and fully appreciate that many (not all, but many) illegal immigrants come to the United States to escape poverty and the lack of freedom and opportunities in their home countries,” he wrote.
“But the fact remains that, under the laws passed by Congress and the president, they are acting illegally by remaining in the United States – at least unless Congress and the president choose some other legislative approach to legalize some or all of those individuals now illegally present in the country,” he added.
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