Decision effectively allows immigration agents to use racial profiling to detain people, greenlighting sweeping raids.Published On 8 Sep 20258 Sep 2025The United States Supreme Court has ruled that the administration of President Donald Trump can resume sweeping immigration raids in the city of Los Angeles, casting aside concerns over potential civil liberties violations.In a 6-3 decision, the conservative-majority court rolled back restrictions on the administration’s aggressive approach to immigration raids, allowing agents to target people based on factors such as language and ethnicity.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listWriting a dissent for the liberal minority, Justice Sonia Sotomayor said that the ruling “has all but declared that all Latinos, US 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”.The highest US court has rarely placed limits on the Trump administration’s assertions of executive authority. Monday’s ruling invalidates previous restrictions imposed by District Judge Maame Frimpong, who said there was a “mountain of evidence” that immigration agents were violating the constitutional rights of residents in Los Angeles.The Supreme Court offered little explanation of the reasoning behind the decision, continuing what critics say is a trend of the nation’s highest court annuling the arguments of lower courts without grappling with their content.“The Supreme Court’s order is outrageous because it includes no reasoning itself but puts on hold the well-reasoned opinions of the lower federal courts,” Cecillia Wang, national legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), a US watchdog group, said in a press statement. Advertisement The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said in a social media post following the ruling that it would continue to ‘FLOOD THE ZONE” in Los Angeles, whe …
