Supreme Court Gives ICE License to Hunt Mexicans ~ L.A. TACO
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For years, conservatives on the court have claimed to be “colorblind.” Yet when it comes to criminalizing our communities, suddenly race matters. This is the contradiction at the heart of the Roberts Court: no race in college admissions, but race is admissible in immigration stops.

For years, conservatives on the court have claimed to be “colorblind.” Yet when it comes to criminalizing our communities, suddenly race matters. This is the contradiction at the heart of the Roberts Court: no race in college admissions, but race is admissible in immigration stops.

  • Rentlar@lemmy.ca
    62·
    1 day ago

    Not even just Mexicans, but Mexican-looking people (aka Latino).

    But it’s not just license to hunt Latino looking people either. The stay was not on that population specifically. The stay was on arresting people on the suspicion based off of any of these henious criminal factors:

    • Existing while non-white (this can include Black/African/Caribbean, East Asian, South Asian, Middle Eastern, and Native Americans)
    • Waiting for a bus
    • Looking for work
    • Working at a car wash, a recycling centre or on a farm
    • Speaking English with a foreign-sounding accent
    • Speaking Spanish (which could be any langauge to a cop that can’t tell foreign languages apart)

    No visible minority is safe from this.

    • tim@infosec.pub
      42·
      1 day ago

      No one* is safe from this. They’ll twist this and other rulings to make it so they can easily discard the rights of anyone against the MAGAt regime.

      • Formfiller@lemmy.world
        7·
        13 hours ago

        Anyone brown, feminist, LGBTQIA ANYONE they don’t like. They’re also calling for war and violence against anyone who is left Of the crazy maga cult

        • BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world
          41·
          12 hours ago

          This was a little too prescient.

          Image description: a still from the movie Civil War from Alex Garland. Jesse Plemons intimidating militant character stand with a gun, asking “Okay, what kind of American are you?”

          • Formfiller@lemmy.world
            3·
            12 hours ago

            I’ve been thinking about that movie a lot lately. It does seem possible that it turns out to be prophetic