“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. Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent.”

- Supreme Court Justices Sotomayor, Kagan, and Jackson^[1]

The extremist majority on the U.S. Supreme Court has overruled a lower court order barring U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) from racial profiling.

That’s right, without ruling on the actual merits of the case, the Court decided ICE roving patrols snatching people off the streets and questioning them based on how they look, what language they speak, what work they do, or even where they just happen to be at the time, can continue while the case is pending.

Effectively, it gives ICE the green light to keep violating the rights of anyone they want while the case works its way through the courts, a process that could take years. Justices know this is unconstitutional. They sidestepped the actual issue by not ruling on the merits of the case, so they could give the Trump administration another win.

This impacts us all.

Historically, Natives have often experienced racial profiling by agents of the federal government and law enforcement. Native communities are not alone, Black, Asian, Italian, Armenian, Irish, the list of people targeted by racial profiling over the course of American history goes on and on. But the Constitution has always been clear.

The Constitution is supposed to protect everyone’s rights from the abuses of Government power. The Supreme Court should reaffirm this standard, not undermine it by allowing illegal behavior to continue.

Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson signed a scathing dissent that lays out in great detail the case against this ruling, including ending with this:^[2]

“The Fourth Amendment protects every individual’s constitutional right to be “free from arbitrary interference by law officers.” Brignoni-Ponce, 422 U. S., at 878. After today, that may no longer be true for those who happen to look a certain way, speak a certain way, and appear to work a certain type of legitimate job that pays very little. Because this is unconscionably irreconcilable with our Nation’s constitutional guarantees, I dissent.”

The Supreme Court is not immune to public pressure. We must dissent too.

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^{[1] Page 12, KRISTI NOEM, SECRETARY, DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY, ET AL. v. PEDRO VASQUEZ PERDOMO, ET AL.
[2] Page 31, KRISTI NOEM, SECRETARY, DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY, ET AL. v. PEDRO VASQUEZ PERDOMO, ET AL.}