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Supreme Court decision will turn communities into immigration hunting grounds

September 12, 2025

OPINION by GEORGE GALVIS

The Supreme Court decision allowing the Trump administration to resume racially motivated immigration raids across Los Angeles turns our neighborhoods into hunting grounds where masked agents with military weapons can kidnap people based solely on the color of their skin or their accent.

By overturning lower court protections against racial profiling, the court’s extremist majority has given federal agents permission to kidnap anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, or works an honest job to support their family.

The highest court in the land sanctioning racial profiling will result in further erosion of public trust in law enforcement and the imprisonment and/or deportation of more brown bodies, U.S. citizens included.

ICE’s “operation at large” has already terrorized our communities — agents are tear-gassing crowds, tackling workers without asking questions, and detaining U.S. citizens indefinitely simply because they couldn’t immediately recall which hospital they were born in. Children are already afraid to attend school. Workers are afraid to show up to their jobs.

U.S. citizens are being forced to carry documentation proving their legitimacy. This decision will spread fear like wildfire through our communities.

No human is illegal on stolen land. Our neighbors shouldn’t have to live in fear of being hunted by their own government while walking to work or school.

We call on California leaders to take immediate action to protect residents from this federal overreach. We demand sanctuary policies that prioritize community safety and wellbeing over Trump’s deportation machine, and we will continue building community defense networks to document and resist these unconstitutional raids.

George Galvis is the executive director of Communities United for Restorative Youth Justice.

 


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Radical judges tried to disrupt Law enforcement from enforcing the law. The Supreme Court overturned their efforts. That’s all.


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George this is the mindset you are combating. “I think it’s worth it to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights”.


Replace gun deaths with “innocent citizens arrested and fearful” and Second Amendment part with “so we can enforce our immigration laws” …..to protect our God-given rights. And you will get the idea.

Fortunately, I think the rest of the country will experience what Ca did after prop 187. Latinos did not expect Trump’s police state to chase down their Abuela in the parking lot.


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The bad guys need to be removed from our streets… if the last administration had not allowed so many illegal aliens to enter unchecked this wouldn’t be happening today… I don’t know of any non criminal alien being arrested and deported… I’m sure there are a few that will be caught up at some raids… maybe if the state and cities would work with ICE that would not be the case…

Crime on American streets is not okay…

So attention should be paid in enforcing our laws first and foremost… then we should appeal to congress to fix our immigration policies so working migrants can enter legally but not vote nor take place in the census… that will take both parties working together… Start writing your representative….


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Whatever race they are, people here illegally need to leave this country and end their financial reliance on the backs of the American taxpayers who have worked all of their lives to make a decent living.


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Thank you Cal Coast News! I needed a good laugh today!


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Last time I checked, ICE had arrested about 650 individuals in the Ventura, Santa Barbara, San Luis tri counties. That’s out of an estimated illegal population in the same area of about 100,000!

Less than 1 percent! Oh the horror!of it all!!

Gotta love the people that for decades have supported keeping wages low for big business with the Sactuary” move.

P. S. As the economy continues to decline and A I wipes out zillions of jobs, Americans are going to need work – possibly even folks that work at underfunded NGOs with “Justice” in the title.Lol!


51

Hysterical hyperventilating, hyperbole over what most call law enforcement activities…


65

This article is hogwash. If you are here illegally you need to be shown the boarder. There are legal ways to enter our country. Federal agents are just enforcing existing laws. If you commit robbery, murder, car jacking or other illegal acts you are subject to arrest … if you are in our country illegally you, too, are a criminal and should be subject to arrest and deportation.


66

Good, we are tired of the massive amount of illegals in America, find them wherever they are, school, church, at the store, at work, at home, no boundaries.


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