The Supreme Court ruled on Monday that Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers can resume sweeping raids in Los Angeles of the kind that prompted mass protests in June.
The ruling reverses an earlier restraining order that was intended to limit sweeping ICE raids in the region. It’s the latest in a series of twists in immigration cases nationwide, and future rulings may change the picture further.
Here’s an understanding of its impact as of Monday.
What the case is about
In July, a judge in a California District Court granted a restraining order against federal agents’ “roving patrols.” In her decision, judge Maame E. Frimpong wrote that the ICE arrests violated the Fourth Amendment, because they were motivated by the race, language, or occupation of the people detained.
Because ICE agents are now encouraged to meet a quota of 3,000 arrests per day, the majority of the people they detain have no criminal record.
But the legal case claimed they went even further, arguing that people were being stopped solely because of where they were and what they looked like. The request for the restraining order also included cases of U.S. citizens who were arrested by ICE and held in immigration detention for many hours.
In her decision, Frimpong said there was a “mountain of evidence” that these people were unjustly detained simply because they were Latino and worked manual labor jobs.
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What happened after the restraining order?
In concept, the order by the district court halted ICE raids in the area.
But in practice, the reaction to the restraining order from the Trump administration was blatant disregard, with Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem saying the raids would continue despite the order, and calling Frimpong an “idiot.” Through August, DHS officers arrested day laborers at Home Depot stores across the city, among other raids. Now, the Supreme Court has sided with the Trump administration, overturning Frimpong’s order.
Reaction to Monday’s ruling
“The Supreme Court has ruled in favor of racial profiling. A dark shadow has been cast over this country’s Constitution and its future,” Armando Gudino, executive director of the Los Angeles Worker Center Network, said in a statement. The Supreme Court has now sided with the Trump administration 17 cases in a row.
“Through the stroke of a pen … the court has written off decades of Fourth Amendment law,” Annie Lai, director of the Immigrant and Racial Justice Solidarity Clinic at the UC Irvine School of Law, wrote in a statement.
In the meantime, President Donald J. Trump said in a press conference on Monday morning that, emboldened by the court’s decision, he plans to “flood the zone” with ICE agents in Los Angeles, and “could do the same in Chicago [and] New York.”
In a statement, Teresa Romero, president of United Farmworkers, said the decision puts “every Californian who looks or sounds like they might be an immigrant in greater danger.”
Is this the final decision on ICE raids?
Not likely. This case will continue to weave its way through lower courts, and could come before the Supreme Court again.
This is not the only blow to immigrants in the past few days. On Friday, a Justice Department appeals panel upended decades of precedent by ruling that anyone who entered the country without authorization, no matter how long they have lived in the United States, is ineligible for a bond, and will need to endure mandatory detention while their deportation cases move through immigration court, which could take years.
Up until now, people who had arrived in the past two years could be placed in “expedited removal,” while people who had been in the U.S. for longer could appeal for a bond to remain free while awaiting a deportation hearing. This decision changes that.
In a statement, American Immigration Lawyers Association executive director Ben Johnson said this decision will cause “irreparable harm,” forcing people, many of whom paid taxes in the United States and lived in the country for decades, to languish in inhumane conditions in immigration detention centers for years.
Despite these setbacks, immigration advocacy organizations vow to continue their fight to stop ICE raids in California, with the American Civil Liberties Union, among other groups, saying their response is to go back to court and try again. “We will continue fighting,” ACLU SoCal wrote.
Lillian Perlmutter covers immigration for Times of San Diego and NEWSWELL.
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