LatinoJustice Calls SCOTUS Ruling Allowing Los Angeles Raids to Proceed an “Appalling” Blow to Fundamental Constitutional Rights
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September 8, 2025
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LatinoJustice Calls SCOTUS Ruling Allowing Los Angeles Raids to Proceed an “Appalling” Blow to Fundamental Constitutional Rights
Supreme Court Lifts Restriction on Los Angeles Immigration Stops
New York, NY – The US Supreme Court on Monday granted the Trump administration’s emergency request to lift a temporary restraining order issued by a federal district court judge in California barring federal immigration official from conducting “roving patrols” and profiling people based on their appearance in Los Angeles and Southern California.
The ruling, based on a request to the so-called emergency docket and opposed by Justices Kagan, Brown Jackson and Sotomayor, overturns a lower court order and permits large-scale immigration sweeps to continue, with potential implications for enforcement practices nationwide.
The following statement can be attributed to Lourdes M. Rosado, President and General Counsel at LatinoJustice PRLDEF:
“The appalling Supreme Court decision to lift restrictions on broad and circumstantially motivated immigration sweeps in Los Angeles opens the door to widespread racial profiling of Latinos and others in that city and across the country.
“The ruling endorses the administration’s suspect criteria to racially profile Latinos and other Angelenos, and wrongly asserts that the harm to the government’s aggressive immigration enforcement goals is greater than the harm to the thousands of people arrested, detained, harassed and intimidated because of their appearance, where they happen to be, the language they are speaking or what their job is.
“As expressed in the ruling’s dissent, placing a person’s fate at the sole discretion of an officer who thinks you are likely in the country illegally because of how you look, because you work at a car wash, stand at a bus stop or speak English with an accent amounts to a complete abrogation of everyone’s rights to be free of an unreasonable search or seizure.
“This decision not only clears a path for continuing racial profiling, harassment and abuse of millions under the guise of fulfilling Trump’s promised mass deportation campaign but also weakens core Fourth Amendment constitutional protections barring unreasonable searches and seizures. LatinoJustice PRLDEF promises we will continue to push against bad actors trying to tear our rights away.”
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