A ProPublica investigation has found that ICE has repeatedly arrested American citizens, misreported those arrests, and disregarded constitutional protections, raising concerns about unchecked federal power and government accountability.
Pamela Wridt and Robert Sauve are suing the City of New York over the NYPD’s expanding use of surveillance cameras, alleging that the city’s practices violate constitutional protections for privacy, free speech, and association.
Millions of drivers are pulled over every year for minor violations, which rarely make roads safer and instead lead to racial disparities, violence, and loss of trust in police, prompting the ACLU to work to restore people’s rights on the road by limiting or ending traffic stops for issues unrelated to road safety.
UC Davis law professors Vikram David Amar and Alan E. Brownstein published an analysis of the Supreme Court’s decision in Noem v. Vasquez Perdomo, which allowed ICE to use race and other demographic factors in selecting individuals for immigration investigation, and criticized Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s opinion for relying on the controversial Los Angeles v. Lyons decision and for equating race with other demographic factors.
The California Public Defenders Association has denounced the Supreme Court’s ruling in Noem v. Perdomo, which allows federal agents to use race, ethnicity, accent, location and occupation as grounds for detaining individuals, effectively permitting racial profiling of Black and Brown individuals suspected of immigration violations.
The Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court to lift a temporary order barring federal immigration agencies from conducting certain types of stops in Los Angeles and surrounding counties, a move which has drawn strong opposition from the ACLU of Southern California.
Mike Fox of the Cato Institute has argued that ICE’s detention and border enforcement practices, enabled by Supreme Court decisions, violate individual privacy rights and expand government power in ways the Constitution’s framers sought to prevent.
A Sacramento lawsuit challenging police violence during the 2020 George Floyd protests has resulted in a monetary settlement, but the court refused to impose lasting injunctive relief, leaving the plaintiffs and advocates frustrated and vulnerable to repeat abuse.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta and a coalition of 18 states have filed an amicus brief to halt aggressive ICE and CBP immigration raids in Los Angeles, citing constitutional violations and harm to public safety and the economy.
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