The Supreme Court on Monday overturned a federal judge’s order that had prohibited federal agents in Los Angeles from stopping people and questioning them about their immigration status based solely on factors like their ethnicity.

    The ruling is not the final word in the case, which stems from the Trump administration’s attempt to carry out mass deportations. But the court’s Republican-appointed majority will allow the government to continue using aggressive — and unconstitutional, in the eyes of its critics — tactics in immigration sweeps as the litigation slowly plays out.

    For now, federal agents in Los Angeles carrying out the immigration crackdown can continue to decide which people to stop and at least briefly detain for questioning based solely on one or a combination of four factors that a lower-court judge had deemed unconstitutional.

    Those factors are people’s apparent race or ethnicity; the fact that they speak English with an accent or speak Spanish; their presence at particular locations like farms or pickup sites for day laborers; and the type of work they do.

    For the Trump administration, that means federal agents can make stops to carry out the immigration crackdown without the potential chilling effect of fearing they could be accused of violating a court order and held in contempt.



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    1. > If any American can get pulled over because of the language they speak, the color of their skin or because they work in a low wage job, who’s safe?

      White, Christian, conservatives are safe in America. At least White Americans can pretend to be Christian and conservative. The rest of us POC are fucked.

    2. Well, with the way women’s and queer rights are also under attack, white, cis, straight Christian and “Christian” conservative men are that ‘safe’ pool.

      The rest of us, well, we’re the targets.

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