EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar, D-Texas, was sharply critical of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling on Monday, Sept. 8 that lifted a federal judge’s order prohibiting government agents from making “indiscriminate” immigration-related stops in Los Angeles.
According to Reuters, the Supreme Court backed the Trump Administration’s hard-line immigration policies and allowed immigration agents to proceed with Southern California raids targeting people for deportation based on their race or language.
Escobar issued the following statement about the case called Kristi Noem v. Pedro Vazquez Perdomo.
“The Supreme Court’s conservative majority decided today to permit racial profiling, betraying the Constitution and the values it’s meant to uphold. The court has effectively legitimized discrimination under the guise of law and order, given government-sanctioned racism a green light, and, again, abandoned its duty to protect the rights of all people.
“This decision sends the full-throated message that Americans can be treated as suspects not because of their actions, but because of the color of their skin or the language they speak. As Justice Sotomayor said: ‘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.’
“History will not remember this decision as a defense of liberty. It will be viewed as the grave failure of the highest court in the land that it is.”
We reached out to U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, and to the local Republican Party for comment.
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