When Justice Becomes Profiling: The Supreme Court’s Ruling on Roving Patrols

On September 8, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a decision that should shake every American to their core. By a 6–3 vote, the Court lifted a block on “roving patrols” in Los Angeles, allowing immigration agents to stop people based on nothing more than how they look, the language they speak, or the kind of work they do.

Let’s call it what it is: legalized racial profiling.

Justice Sonia Sotomayor, in a blistering dissent joined by Justices Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson, warned:

“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.”

But that’s exactly what this ruling authorizes. Six justices, Roberts, Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett, decided that the rights of millions of Latino and immigrant families are expendable in the name of immigration enforcement.

This isn’t about law and order. It’s about fear. It’s about eroding the very Constitution that is supposed to protect us all. And for Mexican Americans like me, it feels like a message from the highest court in the land: you don’t belong.

We do belong. We built these communities. We contribute. We are America. And we will not be silent while our rights are stripped away.

Now is the time to speak up, share, and stand together. Silence is complicity.