Supreme Court Greenlights Broader Immigration Crackdown Amid Due Process and Racial Profiling Fears

Washington, D.C. — Today, in response to the Supreme Court blocking a federal judge’s order that prohibited immigration agents from conducting stops without reasonable suspicion, Voto Latino President and Co-Founder María Teresa Kumar issued the following statement:

“Under this administration, we have witnessed a systematic erosion of due process. Now, with this ruling, immigration enforcement will be emboldened to apprehend people solely based on their appearance. The Supreme Court’s decision to greenlight mass immigration enforcement in Los Angeles is a direct attack on Latino and other communities of color – with nearly 130 million of nonwhite Americans now potentially being subject to the Trump Administration’s racially motivated policing.   

“Latino families across the country have been forced to live in fear, facing harassment and intimidation simply for who they are—regardless of status. This ruling undermines trust in our institutions and sends a dangerous message: that millions of people can be treated as suspects because of how they look or where they work. Every family in this country deserves to live with dignity, security, and freedom from intimidation. Rather than taking our country forward, this ruling only sets our country back.”

In her dissent, Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote: 

“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. Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent.”

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Voto Latino is a civic advocacy organization dedicated to educating and empowering the next generation of Latino voters while working to build a more inclusive and representative democracy. Since its founding, Voto Latino has registered nearly two million voters. In 2024, the organization took legal action to protect voting rights, filing multiple lawsuits in Texas, Arizona, and North Carolina to safeguard access to the ballot ahead of the elections.