By Mark Gruenberg\People’s World
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WASHINGTON—By a 6-3 party-line vote, the GOP-named majority on the U.S. Supreme Court, this week, turned President Donald Trump’s ICE agents loose to prey upon not just Latinos but eventually everyone else in the United States. The ruling allows ICE to continue its rolling Los Angeles raids, including the kidnapping and disappearance of brown people, poor people looking for low-paid work at home repair outlets, restaurant workers, and many others. Opponents of the ruling see it as a threat to people everywhere across the United States.
The three Democratic-named justices, led by Sonia Sotomayor, the court’s sole jurist of Latin American ancestry, hit the roof. The AFL-CIO, in its BlueSky tweet, also hit the roof. UnidosUS—formerly the National Council of La Raza Unida—joined them in their outrage as did a broad array of pro-labor and progressive forces.
“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,” Justice Sotomayor declared.
“The court has put the civil rights of every person in the United States at risk,” declared Janet Murguia, president of UnidosUS, formerly the National Council of La Raza Unida.
“We condemn the Supreme Court’s decision to allow federal agents to profile people based on how we look, the language we speak, and the type of work we do. This is a dangerous attack on workers’ freedoms in Los Angeles and across the country, and our solidarity will not waver!” the AFL-CIO tweeted…READ MORE
