Supreme Court to decide if ICE can arrest based on “apparent ethnicity”

https://www.newsweek.com/supreme-court-ice-arrest-based-apparent-ethnicity-2118753

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  3. and this is gonna take more than 2.5 seconds because…???

  4. Let me guess Thomas will say there is nothing wrong with racial profiling because racism no longer exist.

  5. SCOTUS: it’s actually racist against white people to not racially profile brown people

  6. Conservatives thinking that certain people *existing* is somehow political. Again.

    Conservative policies have lowered the quality of life in every country in every century… ain’t nothin’ more “traditional” than that! It always comes back to education. Or, in this case, a lack thereof…

    Just a bunch of bullies who never bothered growing up, even though they got older.

  7. >The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court earlier this month to stay a federal judge’s order that had limited immigration agents in the Los Angeles area from stopping, questioning and detaining people based on factors that included their “apparent ethnicity,” language and place of work.
    …
    The case could determine whether immigration agents can rely on factors including a person’s “apparent ethnicity” or speaking Spanish, as part of the “reasonable suspicion” standard that permits immigration stops.

    “Supreme Court, you’re going to allow Dada Trump to be as racist as he wants, got it?”

    [Trump Supporter Detained by ICE Agents Regrets Vote: ‘Were All Brainwashed’](https://www.newsweek.com/trump-supporter-detained-ice-agents-immigration-2112676)

    >Gavidia voted for Trump, believing that his administration’s immigration agenda would target criminals, not everyday citizens, NBC 4 Los Angeles reported.

    >He told the outlet that during an immigration enforcement operation in the San Gabriel Valley, a federal agent pushed him against a wall and demanded proof of citizenship, asking him the name of the hospital where he was born.

    >Footage circulating on social media shows Gavidia shouting, “I was born here in the states, East LA bro!”

    >The video shows agents, who are wearing vests with “Border Patrol Federal Agent” on them, holding Gavidia’s hands behind his back.

    >Agents allegedly confiscated his Real ID and phone. Gavidia was later released and recovered his phone, but he said he never received his ID.

    Wearing the red hat and screeching “I voted for Trump!” will *not* save you from this Administration.

  8. They’ll find some weasel way to agree to it under some weird “no standing” or other bullshit reason to escape their job.

  9. Wait a second. Are there some ethnicities that are illegal in the US???

  11. So Melania “Einstein” Deeznutz is now a legitimate target?

  14. Can’t wait to see how Clarence Thomas votes.

  16. I am not kidding: the outcome of this decision may sway me to finally get the fuck out of the shithole this country is quickly becoming. If I can’t safely circulate with my children because some ICE goon may decide I’m a shade too brown to be free, then fuck everything about this shit.

  17. I got called alarmist during the election when I said a Trump win would quickly devolve into “open season on brown people” but here we are

  18. Seriously? What the actual fuck are we even debating? Fucking Gestapo-enabling motherfuckers if they allow it.

  19. Bleached skin will be the in thing. Everyone will want to look like Michael Jackson.

  20. JFC. “Walking while non-white” should not be grounds to arrest someone

  21. As of note, No Trial, plus this, means you just legally vanish, no one gets called, no lawyer, not recorded in documents for later in a meaningful way that can be reversed. Good thing you’re an internet dweller and don’t have a tan right? Hope none of your friends are tan.

  22. Anyone else live through the Sheriff Arpaio years in Arizona? He’s got to be honored to have lived long enough to see his homeboy Donnie take his local “Brown in Public” methods and make them national. It was illegal when Arpaio did it too but now there may not be any federal judges to stop it.

  23. The civil rights movement was 60 years ago, and here we are in 2025 straight up undoing all that progress.

    It’s really disheartening to see how long and hard it is to make progress against oppression; while at the same time, once oppressors get power, they take all the progress away.

  24. So you can’t be considered for a job via DEI policies based on ethnic background

    But you can have your right against unlawful searches and seizures revoked and be arrested based on ethnic background

    Did I get that right?

  25. Talk about opening Pandora’s Box and loosing demons and evil on the world… and Trump is too stupid to know that what comes around goes around. If SCOTUS takes Trump’s ask at all seriously, they may well be lighting the fire that burns down anything and everything this country ever did right.

    Just think about it… The United States Supreme Court is really going to (seriously?) consider opening a legal door which would, if they allow this insane mental aberration to succeed, enable the future arrest of ***anyone who happens to look like they might possibly be*** …

    an African-American…

    or a Caucasian…

    or an Asian…

    or a Native American…

    or an Arab…

    or a Jew…

    or a Polynesian…

    …. add **any ethnicity you can think of**…

    … ***ad infinitum*** *…*

    This could potentially become a new mechanism for **mutually assured destruction**!

  26. It’s not even just what you look like. Read the article. They’re arresting people for speaking Spanish. *They are arresting people for speaking in a different language.*

  27. Racially ambiguous bi-racial woman here : I’ve been waiting for this to happen. Scared of this to happen. Now I look the part. Im 54 years old and never been this scared to live in my own dam country. 💔

  28. So businesses and schools can’t use race as a factor in hiring and accepting new students, but ok to use race for harassment and deportation purposes.
    Got it. Used when fits the need for negative outcomes, but not for positive outcomes.

  29. So the Supreme Court is gonna decide if blatant racism by ICE agents is ok or not.

    So they will probably allow it and the many racist Americans will be happy with the outcome.

  30. Given their fascist white heritage makeup, I won’t be surprised if they go full Nazi and codify rounding up people based on skin color, apparent religious attire, guessed at sexuality/gender, etc…

  32. What. the. freaking. hell?

    “Apparent” ethnicity?

    Sanctioning the right to arrest based on ethnicity, race, color, etc.? Fascism isn’t just here. It’s growing like mushrooms under the floor boards.

  34. State governments need to start ignoring the supreme court and just arrest the ICE agents for violating their laws, Everyone needs to stop being afraid of these people and stop obeying fascists in advance.

    No they wont invade all the liberal cities for the simple fact that our military doesn’t have enough people to do that and conservatives are not the real majority of citizens and their leaders know it even if few other people do,

    They are doing whatever they can get away with and keep backing down at the slightest resistance.

  36. It’ll be 5-4 and they’ll say “Sure King Trump you go right ahead and do racist shit because racism is over.”

  37. The Right: “sToP cAlLiNg Us NaZiS”.

    Also the Right: “The case could determine whether immigration agents can rely on factors including a person’s “apparent ethnicity” or speaking Spanish, as part of the “reasonable suspicion” standard that permits immigration stops.”

    Gee I wonder what other group in recent history were also suspected and arrested for their appearance? It’s slipping my mind gosh darn it.

  38. ” … decide if ICE can arrest based on “apparent ethnicity” ”

    Why is this even a question in 2025? We have found ourselves in a dystopian nightmare.

  39. I think there’s a family guy clip with cops using that paint color wheel thing to determine suspects.

  41. Get ready for another 5-4 decision taking away people’s rights!

    God we need another nerumberg trial after this.

  42. The ruling is in….

    The Supreme Court has ruled that “Trump can do whatever the fuck he wants.”

    6-3 decision

  44. Lol guess I’m cooked. Live in a mildly racist area and have already gotten slurs while walking dog or riding bicycle. Sad part is totally incorrect slurs… I’m actually mixed African American and my grandmother was literally was born and raised in a plantation before segregation ended.

    What a shithole of a country.

  45. So:

    Suspicionless arrests based on race—constitutional.

    College using race as a factor in admissions to provide a diverse student body—14th amendment violation.

    Ok got it.

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