Supreme Court Embraces Racial Profiling By ICE In LA [View all]

Source: HuffPost

Sep 8, 2025, 11:46 AM EDT

In a decision that rubber-stamps racial profiling by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Los Angeles — and could accelerate deportations across America — the Supreme Court on Monday ruled that federal agents do not need reasonable suspicion to target someone for immigration detention, leaving the door open for any rationale immigration agents choose to use, including racial profiling.

The ruling comes after the Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to block an order from a lower court that prohibited agents from using four racially loaded categories to justify arrests: apparent ethnicity, language spoken or accent, presence at a location where immigrants were believed to gather, or working in a particular kind of job. The order had snaked through the high court’s emergency, or “shadow,” docket since Aug. 7.

The decision overturns an order by U.S. District Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong that had temporarily halted ICE agents in Los Angeles from making arrests or stops without reasonable suspicion. U.S. citizens and immigrants had been detained under the Trump administration’s directive to the Department of Homeland Security, often by masked and sometimes armed men. Frimpong found those raids were done illegally and, specifically, in violation of the Fourth Amendment.

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