Supreme Court OK’s Trump Admin’s Resumption of Immigration Sweeps In LA
The Court’s decision doesn’t just tweak immigration enforcement; it redraws the boundary between security and civil liberty. By allowing ethnicity, language, and location to count as “relevant factors,” the majority signaled a new tolerance for suspicion built on identity. Justice Kavanaugh framed it as deference to precedent and “common sense,” but for millions of immigrants and U.S. citizens who look like them, the ruling lands as a warning flare.
In Los Angeles, where mixed-status families are a fact of life, the psychological impact may be as powerful as the legal one. Communities already wary of law enforcement now face the prospect of routine encounters turning into immigration interrogations. Supporters insist the ruling merely restores the government’s ability to enforce the law. Opponents see a door quietly opened to normalized profiling—and a test of how far America will let fear shape its definition of justice.