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.”
Michael Aboud, chairman of the El Paso Republican Party, said “the U.S. Supreme Court is upholding the Constitution of the United States and in their decision, they are acknowledging that the Trump Administration is following the law.
“As usual the local congresswoman doesn’t like it when the law is followed, which was on full display when the Biden Administration and the Democrats were in charge. They helped foreigners to enter our country illegally, they spent billions of our tax dollars on this endeavor, and totally disregarded the Constitution and the people in which they serve,” Aboud added.
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