Concerns over ICE’s racial profiling

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I believe we are living in truly dangerous times. On June 29, 2023, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that, when it comes to college admissions, race cannot be used as the determining factor on admission to the school (Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. (SFFA) v. President & Fellows of Harvard College (Harvard) and SFFA v. University of North Carolina (UNC), Nos. 20-1199 & 21-707 per Sidley Law Group).

Now, the current Supreme Court ruling Noem v. Vasquez Perdomo has allowed the Trump Administration’s ICE to round up and detain anyone who they think may look like an undocumented person. If you have brown skin, speak Spanish or even Farsi, you can be detained and whisked away to a federal detention facility without any charges being filed.

Habeus Corpus is a foundational legal right in this country that specifically forbade this Third World-type of behavior until Donald Trump, Steven Miller, Tom Homan and their supporters came along.

In Donald Trump’s America, the right to live your life without being judged by the color of your skin, your occupation or the language you choose to speak appears to be gone, unless you are applying to college.

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