Supreme Court lifts limits on LA immigration raids
www.bbc.com
US top court says that immigration agents can stop people based solely on their race, language or job.
  • Redditsux@lemmy.worldOP
    79·
    2 days ago

    The 6-3 decision of the conservative-majority court allows agents to stops suspects based solely on their race, language or job, while a legal challenge to the recent immigration sweeps in LA works its way through the courts.

    WOW. US has gone complete NAZI. WOW. This reverses 200 years of progress in human civilization.
    The headline does NOT do justice to the implications. It puts into law that some people have LESS RIGHTS than others if they are NOT WHITE.

    • tidderuuf@lemmy.world
      391·
      2 days ago

      Umm… I’m not sure how long you’ve studied US History but non white have always had less rights. Just not always written explicitly so.

      • themadcodger@kbin.earth
        20·
        2 days ago

        Yup. Originally, Irish and Italian immigrants weren’t white. Syrians and Arabs have always been white though, because as they argued in court, if they weren’t white, neither was Jesus. So that case ended quickly.

    • TachyonTele@piefed.socialEnglish
      14·
      2 days ago

      For you today was the day that it put into law that some people have less rights than others if they are not white.

      For America it was Monday.

    • aubeynarf@lemmynsfw.com
      9·
      2 days ago

      Not “the US.” the Trump-appointed courts, Trump-led executive, and Republican legislature.

      The majority of the US hate this shit.

      So, maybe “the current Republican US government,” but not “the US”

      • Cosmonauticus@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 day ago

        This has been going on since the end of slavery. If America hated this shit it stop and frisk never would’ve existed.

        Most ppl in this country don’t give a shit about anything until it happens to them

    • CaptainBlinky@lemmy.myserv.one
      63·
      2 days ago

      First off I absolutely disagree with the decision 100%, but that’s not exactly what it said. What it said was that race could be taken into account among other things like location, employment type, etc. The result is the same of course, people being disappeared off the street for being brown. I just don’t like dishonest reporting.

      • mkwt@lemmy.world
        1·
        2 days ago

        This is also only an interim decision that only officially applies to operations in Los Angeles for the duration of that litigation and further appeals (e.g. 1-2 years). There was no opinion or explanation on how this ruling comports with existing 4A and 5A case law.

  • zbyte64@awful.systems
    17·
    2 days ago

    So they can discriminate based on protected traits as long as they do so using most of the traits. And they wonder why people’s trust in their institution is eroding.

    • Bakkoda@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      5·
      1 day ago

      Ginny Thomas being a traitor, multiple judges being involved in sexual assaults and alcoholism, most of them hanging out with Federalists, legislating from the bench, going on record and LYING TO THE UNITED STATES CITIZENS ABOUT Roe…

      What trust?

  • jason_is_back@tucson.social
    191·
    2 days ago

    If you think immigrants will be the only ones harrassed, you are sadly wrong. Next year while trying to vote, expect them to do this to people.

  • tover153@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
    15·
    2 days ago

    This is the Dred Scott decision of this generation, and hopefully the same uproar will follow. Civil war II to follow?