September 8, 2025
Los Angeles (Sept. 8, 2025) – Today, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a decision lifting a lower district court order allowing the indiscriminate immigration arrests that started in Los Angeles in June to continue across Southern California. The California Immigrant Policy Center (CIPC) issued the following statement regarding the decision:
“As an immigrant rights organization headquartered in Los Angeles, we have witnessed firsthand the terror the mass and roving immigration raids have unleashed on our communities. Thousands of families have been torn apart. Children, workers, parents, permanent residents, U.S. citizens, veterans, and labor leaders have all been targeted, attacked, and detained by armed and unidentifiable federal agents. People of every background now live in fear of simply going to work, dropping their kids off at school, buying groceries, or seeking medical care or emergency services. The militarized immigration raids do not make us safer—they target and endanger people based on their ethnicity or race, language or occupation,” CIPC Executive Director Masih Fouladi said.
“This administration has used ICE and Border Patrol as a pretense to bring the National Guard and Marines into our neighborhoods as a show of political force. We have seen the devastating consequences, including the tragic loss of life. There is nothing just in today’s Supreme Court ruling, just as there was nothing just in the Court’s past rulings that allowed Japanese Americans to be rounded up in internment camps or that upheld the Muslim Ban.
History will remember this moment. When federal agencies are allowed to operate like a secret police force—stopping, arresting, and detaining people based on race, language, or occupation—the constitutional rights of all people are at risk. Americans of every background must demand accountability from Congress and denounce these attacks.”
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