
<p>As President Donald J. Trump continues to fulfill his promise of making America safe again, the Supreme Court has lifted restrictions on Los Angeles immigration raids in a major win for the administration.</p>



<p>The conservative majority lifted a restraining order from a judge who found that roving patrols were conducting indiscriminate stops in and around LA. The order had barred immigration agents from stopping people solely based on their race, language, job, or location.</p>



<p>The court’s 6-3 decision followed a pattern of at least temporarily allowing some of the Republican administration’s harshest policies, while leaving room for the possibility of a different outcome after the legal case plays out fully. The net effect, meanwhile, has Trump pushing ahead in many of the areas he considers most critical.</p>



<p>The Supreme Court&#8217;s order is a major victory for the Trump administration as it enacts an aggressive deportation agenda across the country. California, one of four major southern border states, saw high-profile protests and riots crop up over the summer in response to ICE&#8217;s raids and the National Guard, which Trump deployed to Los Angeles in June at the objection of Democratic ;Gov. Gavin Newsom.</p>



<p>The immigrant rights groups and labor unions who sued alleged that ICE was stopping individuals without reasonable suspicion. ICE authorities unconstitutionally showed up at farms and car washes and targeted people based on their race and language, the plaintiffs alleged.</p>



<p>The Supreme Court&#8217;s majority did not include an explanation, but Justice Brett Kavanaugh, a Trump appointee, offered a concurring opinion in which he said that the reasonable suspicion requirement was not a high bar and that ICE could have very well met that bar. A combination of factors, including race, could provide authorities with reasonable suspicion to stop a person and inquire about their immigration status, Kavanaugh said.</p>



<p>&#8220;To be clear, apparent ethnicity alone cannot furnish reasonable suspicion; under this Court’s case law regarding immigration stops, however, it can be a ‘relevant factor’ when considered along with other salient factors,&#8221; Kavanaugh wrote.</p>



<p>The ;Department of Homeland Security ;celebrated the emergency decision on Monday in a statement, saying it would not allow Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, a Democrat, to protect illegal immigrants with criminal backgrounds.</p>



<p>&#8220;A win for the safety of Californians and the rule of law,&#8221; a DHS spokesperson said. &#8220;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 that Karen Bass continues to give safe harbor.&#8221;</p>



<p>Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a statement that ICE would now be able to continue &#8220;roving patrols&#8221; without &#8220;judicial micromanagement.&#8221;</p>



<p>However, the American Civil Liberties Union, one of the left-wing groups challenging the Trump administration, claimed the high court was sanctioning racial profiling.</p>



<p>&#8220;For anyone perceived as Latino by an ICE agent, this means living in a fearful ‘papers please’ regime, with risks of violent ICE arrests and detention,&#8221; Cecillia Wang, an ACLU national legal director, said, adding that her organization would continue its legal fight in the Ninth Circuit.</p>

Supreme Court Backs Trump on Immigration Raids
