SCOTUS clears way for ICE raids in California in victory for Trump | Fox News
By: Ashley OliverBill MearsShannon Bream (Fox News)
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The Supreme Court cleared the way for the Trump administration to continue carrying out immigration raids in California after local leaders and advocacy groups argued that federal authorities were stopping suspected illegal immigrants without a valid cause.
The high court's 6-3 decision, issued along ideological lines, is temporary while the case proceeds in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
It came after a federal judge in July blocked Immigration and Customs Enforcement from conducting raids in Los Angeles County, finding the plaintiffs likely would succeed in their argument that the raids violated the Fourth Amendment. The Ninth Circuit upheld that order, leading the Trump administration to turn to the Supreme Court.
A worker stands at the entrance of a strawberry field to keep the gate closed to protect farmworkers against ICE raids on June 12, 2025, in Oxnard, California.(APU GOMES/AFP via Getty Images)
Demonstrators protest outside the Edward R. Roybal Federal Building and the Metropolitan Detention Center in response to ICE raids in Los Angeles on Friday, June 6, 2025, in Los Angeles.(Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
The Department of Homeland Security celebrated the ruling in a statement, saying it would not allow Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, one of the plaintiffs in the lawsuit, to protect illegal immigrants with criminal backgrounds.
"A win for the safety of Californians and the rule of law," a DHS spokesperson said. "DHS law enforcement will not be slowed down and will continue to arrest and remove the murderers, rapists, gang members and other criminal illegal aliens that Karen Bass continues to give safe harbor."
Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a statement ICE would now be able to continue "roving patrols" without "judicial micromanagement."
Justice Sonia Sotomayor filed a dissent, saying the emergency order greenlighting the raids was "troubling" because the majority gave no explanation for the move, which she said was "unconscionably irreconcilable" with the Constitution.
"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," Sotomayor wrote.
This is a breaking story. Check back for updates.
Ashley Oliver is a reporter for Fox News Digital and FOX Business, covering the Justice Department and legal affairs. Email story tips to ashley.oliver@fox.com.
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Time for ICE to flood the zone in California and remove the trash. and arrest anyone who hinders their efforts.
How long until a district court ignores it?
What’s weird, is that I can certainly agree we should find and deport illegals in our country, but why, why can it not be done in a Constitutional manner, because violating the rights of legitimate citizens is not Constitutional. Go about it the correct way, including due process, and deport a way, but everything this administration tries to shove through, is constantly and consistently bordering on, or just down right in violation of the rule of this once great nation, and thus the reason for so much frustration, and all done by one who is attempting , attempted previously, and is engaged so deviously in manipulating our once rock solid Constitution of this nation into a watered down dilution which is not the solution, only another form of US produced pollution.
Trump should be in prison or jail, not corrupting this country as he has, and doust does continue without fail, and revoked should be the orange clowns’ bale, cause hey, it’s been one long pulled tail Trump lifted, and the shit that’s come out of that orifice is enuff to make a herd of cattle rattle, as his bovine excrement was never meant for US, yet he buries US daily, so don’t mind me as a cuss, cause no other potUS has been a bigger POS than he.
‘why can it not be done in a Constitutional manner’
Just curious….. did the deporter in chief,Obama, give all those he deported tje same ‘due process’ you demand of Trump?
common sense says no
How do all these protesters have such professionally printed signs?
Many of them might have gotten art degrees in college only to find out that won't get them a job.
Are they ever going after white European drug dealers who infiltrate biker gangs? They speak different languages too.
Why are they only targeting the easy pickings by skin color, speaking Spanish or day laborers that Americans hire?
Are the ICE goon squad afraid of real drug peddlers who skate by with white skin color?
Show their own faces and take off the masks if they actually have free rein to do this. They are stopping American citizens in the process and Americans are supposed to live in a free country without needing to show "papers". Who carries papers anyway? No one!