Department of Homeland Security Tricia McLaughlin tore into The New York Times on Monday over its “wildly inaccurate” report about Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) relying on a person’s ethnic background to make “indiscriminate stops” in Los Angeles, California.
The justices granted the Trump administration’s request to remove restrictions on the ICE raids in Los Angeles, stating that the high court “does not set immigration policy or decide enforcement priorities.” In response to the Times’ framing of the high court’s decision, McLaughlin said the outlet has continued to “humiliate itself” with its inaccuracies.
“The @NYTimes continues to humiliate itself and showcase its incompetence. ‘Indiscriminate stops’ is wildly inaccurate. The Supreme Court simply applied longstanding precedent regarding what qualifies as ‘reasonable suspicion’ under the Fourth Amendment. What makes someone a target of ICE is if they are illegally in the U.S. DHS enforces federal immigration law without fear, favor, or prejudice,” McLaughlin said.
The Times’ piece, written by Adam Liptak, emphasized Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s claim that Latinos who work as laborers are “fair game to be seized at any time, taken away from work and held until they provide proof of their legal status to the agents’ satisfaction.” The piece alleged that Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh justified using demographic bias to arrest illegal immigrants.
“Justice Kavanaugh said the four factors identified by Judge [Maame E.] Frimpong can play a role in determining whom to stop. For instance, he wrote, unauthorized immigrants often work as day laborers in landscaping, agriculture or construction and “many of those illegally in the Los Angeles area come from Mexico or Central America and do not speak much English,” Liptak wrote.
Justices Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented.
Judge Maame E. Frimpong, appointed by former President Joe Biden, ordered ICE agents not to consider race or ethnicity, speaking Spanish or working as a day laborer as factors for arresting illegal immigrants. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit refused to pause the order at the behest of the administration, leading to an appeal at the Supreme Court.
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