The Supreme Court granted the Trump administration’s request on Monday to remove restrictions surrounding Los Angeles immigration raids.
Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote in a concurring opinion that the judiciary “does not set immigration policy or decide enforcement priorities.”
“It should come as no surprise that some Administrations may be more laissez-faire in enforcing immigration law, and other Administrations more strict,” Kavanaugh wrote, noting the Supreme Court denied efforts to compel the Biden administration to take stronger enforcement actions.
The administration asked the justices in August to block a district court judge’s order preventing reliance on relying on race, location, type of work or speaking Spanish when making immigration stops. They argued the judge should not be able to “micromanage” immigration enforcement, especially when one in every 10 individuals in the area is an illegal alien.
“Article III judges may have views on which policy approach is better or fairer,” he wrote. “But judges are not appointed to make those policy calls.”
BREAKING: Supreme Court grants the Trump administration’s request to lift restrictions on Los Angeles immigration stops. pic.twitter.com/jHBnbiDn3C
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Kavanaugh also wrote that the interest of illegal migrants in avoiding law enforcement stops “is ultimately an interest in evading the law.”
“That is not an especially weighty legal interest,” he wrote.
Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented.
“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,” Sotomayor wrote. “Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent.”
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