September 11, 2025 - Day #235
Police State: The State Of Immigration Policing In Trump’s America
It’s a Steven Miller fantasy, the Supreme Court’s recent decision allowing immigration agents to stop people because of suspicions about how they look or talk or what music they might listen to.
Upon googling the question; “Did the Supreme Court recently allow racial profiling by immigration agents?” an AI answer came back:
“Yes, the Supreme Court recently allowed ICE agents in Los Angeles to resume immigration stops based on factors including race, ethnicity, and occupation, reversing a lower court order that had banned such actions. In a brief, unsigned order issued September 8, 2025, the Supreme Court paused a federal judge's ruling that prevented immigration agents from making stops without reasonable suspicion that someone was in the U.S. illegally. The lower court ruling prohibited relying solely on factors like speaking Spanish, working in certain jobs, or being in a specific location. While the ruling is temporary and allows the case to proceed, it has been widely criticized as a dangerous endorsement of racial profiling by immigration agents, according to the ACLU and other immigrant rights groups.”
Further research confirms the AI answer. In Monday’s emergency shadow docket ruling on Noem v. Vasquez Perdomo, the Supreme Court temporarily reversed lower court orders disallowing stops based on factors of appearance, accent, and occupation. So now federal agents are free to randomly stop ANYONE because of the way they look, where they might be or how they speak. Now, anyone who is not lily-white with proper English is in ICE’s crosshairs.
Here’s more reporting from Politico:
The Supreme Court has lifted restrictions that barred the Trump administration from carrying out immigration-related raids in the Los Angeles area based on broad criteria such as speaking Spanish or gathering at locations day laborers often congregate.
The high court’s majority offered no explanation for its decision to grant the Trump administration’s emergency appeal to block the district judge’s order. However, Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote separately in support of the decision, saying it was reasonable to briefly question people who meet multiple “common sense” criteria for possible illegal presence — including employment in day labor or construction, and limited English proficiency.
Three justices, Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson all dissented, with Sotomayor writing,
“We should not have to live in a country where the Government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job. The Government, and now the concurrence, has all but declared that all Latinos, U. S. citizens or not, who work low wage jobs are fair game to be seized at any time, taken away from work, and held until they provide proof of their legal status to the agents’ satisfaction.”
California Attorney General Rob Bonta brought another perspective to the high court’s reversal of the lower court order when he called the high court’s action “disappointing.” More from Politico:
(Bonta) said the Supreme Court’s acceptance of the use of race as a factor in immigration enforcement was in tension with the court’s decision two years ago ruling out the use of race to promote diversity in college admissions. “How they prevent the use of race to tackle discrimination, but allow the use of race to potentially discriminate is troubling and it is disturbing.”
Predictably, the Trump Administration defended the ruling with a statement from Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin.
“This is a win for the safety of Californians and the rule of law. DHS law enforcement will not be slowed down and will continue to arrest and remove the murderers, rapists, gang members, and other criminal illegal aliens… .”
Disputing that argument, is a June 20, 2025 report from the libertarian CATO Institute, which shows that ICE’s own data does not support McLaughlin’s statement. Cato Institute’s Director of Immigration Studies, David Bier, authored the article.
New nonpublic data from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) indicate that the government is primarily detaining individuals with no criminal convictions of any kind. ICE has shared this data with people outside the agency, who shared the numbers with the Cato Institute.
As of June 14, ICE had booked into detention 204,297 individuals (since October 1, 2024, the start of fiscal year 2025). Of those book-ins, 65 percent, or 133,687 individuals, had no criminal convictions. Moreover, more than 93 percent of ICE book-ins were never convicted of any violent offenses. About nine in ten had no convictions for violent or property offenses. Most convictions (53 percent) fell into three main categories: immigration, traffic, or nonviolent vice crimes.
ICE’s deportation agenda is not what is being advertised to the American public. Congress should mandate more transparent reporting from ICE and require that it target only those who pose genuine threats to public safety, Bier concludes.
But, Trump and his gang of cruel immigration enforcement enablers, led by top advisor Stephen Miller, Homeland Secretary Kristi Noem and Border Czar Tom Homan, don’t care and instead whitewash over the 65% who have zero convictions. They don’t care and instead lie about the hundreds, even thousands who are caught up in the brown/dark skin sweeps and detained until proven legal. They don’t care and instead lie about those they are disappearing off the streets of America.
And even though it’s potentially just temporary, the state of immigration policing in America is indeed now in a very bad state. With Miller and Noem and Homan running the show and a-for-now compliant Supreme Court, non Anglos beware. No matter your status, a quick run to the convenience store could turn into your worst nightmare, while simultaneously the same dream is Stephen Miller’s daytime fantasy.
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