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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My entire family voted for this. ALL OF THIS.

ILLEGAL means ILLEGAL

Their sob stories mean nothing to these American Patriots of Hispanic descent, surname and dark skin to match.

#DeportThemAll (with malice if need be)

#AmericansFirst

#AmericaFirst

No se puede, ILLEGAL INVADERS!


The USA pays an unfathomable amount of goodwill, money and civil peace being a neighbor to corrupt old Mexico. Most Mexican immigrants will admit that corruption in Mexico is the driving factor for our relationship with that country, and why they had to migrate here. Added up, the drug problem, crimes committed by illegals, over crowded schools, and emergency rooms used as doctor’s offices, make for a lousy neighbor relationship. Although many believe it, the USA is not obliged to host every Mexican who desires to live here.


He even worked “stolen land” into this nonsense. Abuela also! Why go by George and not Jorge?


Sorry, I’m a little confused. What race, exactly, is “illegal alien adjudicated criminal”?


Hate to be the bearer of bad news, Hispanics aren’t the only group of illegals in the US. Everyone needs to be deported that is in OUR country illegally.


The prior administration allowed millions of people to enter our country for the purpose of overloading the census within democrat districts solely for the purpose of power. so if you want to be angry over the federal government enforcing the laws against illegal people, then be angry at the DNC for not caring about the effect their power hungry policies had on our country.


My whole family of. ulti-generational and still native Californians VOTED for this.

ALL OF THIS!

ILLEGAL means ILLEGAL

#DeportThemAll (with malice if need be)

No ONE is above the law. No ONE!


American/Californian Patriot #Hispanics4Trump, #Hispanics4TRUERepublicans and the Rule of Law. ⚖️


POTUS DJT #45-47


Winning!