Update:10/15/2025 Colorado immigrants' rights groups sue Trump Administration, ICE over alleged warrantless arrests - CBS Colorado. This class action suit, if it makes it to the Supreme Court, has national implications.
Update 9/27/2025 An excellent in-depth article of how ICE is snatching migrants, mostly who are not criminals, just working hard at their jobs, and how it impacts mountain communities. The cost is both human and economic. Grand County lost a familiar face at a McDonald's window, and frightened children are fleeing schools. ‘There’s a human cost’: Colorado mountain towns see student absences, community tension in wake of growing ICE operations | SkyHiNews.com
Continuing with original post: The 6-3 Supreme Court just gave the green light to ICE to snatch people off the street because they look Hispanic and sound Hispanic. It is racial profiling, pure and simple. I am disgusted. The voice of dissent, Justice Sotomayor, wrote:"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," she wrote. "Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent." Trump's Supreme Court is chipping away at civil rights with no explanation other than "it's not our job to set immigration enforcement policy," and we need to call them out. That should send a chill through anyone who does not look white for the precedent this sets. Supreme Court gives no explanation as it hands Trump another win
The old warning to anyone who looks Hispanic (or even native Americans), carry your papers ready to show them on the spot, is no real protection as even green card holders and those born here have birth certificates, get detained by ICE. ICE is putting many in holding pens while they "sort it out", and even then, whether the detainee can afford an attorney or even speaks English is a question. Their chance for a "due process" hearing after waiting days in a slammer is a roll of the dice and the hope that some non-profit comes to their rescue.
This is sheer terror, as told to me by my Hispanic friends. Even showing an ICE agent your papers is not always helpful. There are no figures released by the Trump regime that report numbers of those wrongfully detained and even deported, but there are past studies that detail that there were plenty of wrongful detentions dating years before ICE was given a quota ot snatch anyone to make their daily tally. Anecdotal evidence that it is happening now is plentiful if you do a Google search.
La Corte Suprema, con 6 votos a favor y 3 en contra, acaba de dar luz verde al Servicio de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas (ICE) para que secuestre a personas en la calle por su apariencia y sonido hispanos. Es discriminación racial, pura y simplemente. Estoy indignada. La voz disidente, la jueza Sotomayor, escribió: "No deberíamos tener que vivir en un país donde el gobierno pueda detener a cualquiera que parezca latino, hable español y parezca tener un trabajo mal pagado". "En lugar de quedarnos de brazos cruzados mientras se pierden nuestras libertades constitucionales, disiento". La Corte Suprema de Trump está socavando los derechos civiles sin más explicación que "no es nuestra responsabilidad establecer políticas de control migratorio", y debemos denunciarlos. Esto debería estremecer a cualquiera que no parezca blanco por el precedente que esto sienta. La vieja advertencia para cualquiera que parezca hispano (o incluso nativo americano): llevar sus documentos listos para mostrarlos en el acto no es una protección real, ya que incluso los titulares de tarjetas de residencia y los nacidos aquí con certificados de nacimiento son detenidos por el ICE, que simplemente los pone en celdas mientras "resuelven sus problemas". Aun así, si el detenido puede pagar un abogado o si habla inglés, tiene la oportunidad de una audiencia de "debido proceso" después de esperar días en una cárcel es una cuestión de suerte, y la esperanza de que alguna organización sin fines de lucro venga a rescatarlo es un juego de azar. Esto es puro terror, como me contaron mis amigos hispanos. Ni siquiera mostrarle los documentos a un agente del ICE sirve de nada. El régimen de Trump no ha publicado cifras que informen sobre el número de detenidos injustamente e incluso deportados, pero sí hay estudios anteriores que detallan que hubo muchas detenciones injustas años antes de que el ICE tuviera una cuota para capturar a cualquiera por día. Hay abundante evidencia anecdótica de que esto está sucediendo ahora si se busca en Google.
