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Trump wants 10,000 more deportation agents. Experts say it’s an impossible goal — and dangerous.

Walking through a Home Depot parking lot while being brown raises enough reasonable suspicion in an immigration agent’s mind to cause my detention for a citizenship check, as  Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts and the Five Supremes recently ruled. The 6-3 decision gave agents wide latitude to conduct indiscriminate immigration stops of Latinos suspected of living in the U.S. illegally, even if we are citizens.
Concurring with the court’s ruling, Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh wrote that ethnicity alone can’t be grounds for reasonable suspicion, but it can be a “relevant factor”when considered with a combination of other factors. But take it from someone who grew up in South Texas and has had interactions with Border Patrol agents throughout his life — a person’s ethnicity is often the only requisite for a citizenship check.

It’s safe to say that five of the Supremes have no empirical knowledge of racism, while the sixth appears to be in denial of how his ethnicity has impacted his life for the bad and good. In any case, Roberts and the Five Supremes have legalized the use of ethnicity as grounds for stopping and questioning Latinos about their citizenship. A head spinning move after ruling in June 2023 that it’s illegal for colleges and universities to use race as a factor in their considerations for admissions.  

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