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Vance say they're "taking accusations of racial profiling seriously," profiling THEY asked the Supreme Court to allow
from KARE-TV Minneapolis St. Paul:
Vance stopped in Minneapolis Thursday to meet with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents and spoke about their immigration operations. During his press conference, Vance said he was concerned about the safety of federal officers and blamed elected officials for their resistance to immigration operations.
When pressed about the accusations made by local law enforcement surrounding racial profiling, Vance said he would look into it when he returns to Washington, D.C., but then shifted the focus to local law enforcement and their failure to cooperate with the federal operations.
"It's something that we take very seriously. We will take accusations of racial profiling back to Washington — we'll certainly look into them when they come up — but this is not a group that's going around and looking for people who violated the law based on skin color, they're looking for people who violated the actual law. The law of our immigration system in this country," Vance said. "So long as we had more cooperation, I think we could do this in a much more targeted way.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/vice-president-jd-vance-criticizes-local-officials-for-not-cooperating-with-ice-mayor-frey-responds/ar-AA1UL27U
When pressed about the accusations made by local law enforcement surrounding racial profiling, Vance said he would look into it when he returns to Washington, D.C., but then shifted the focus to local law enforcement and their failure to cooperate with the federal operations.
"It's something that we take very seriously. We will take accusations of racial profiling back to Washington — we'll certainly look into them when they come up — but this is not a group that's going around and looking for people who violated the law based on skin color, they're looking for people who violated the actual law. The law of our immigration system in this country," Vance said. "So long as we had more cooperation, I think we could do this in a much more targeted way.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/vice-president-jd-vance-criticizes-local-officials-for-not-cooperating-with-ice-mayor-frey-responds/ar-AA1UL27U
How the hell is the Trump administration 'taking accusations of racial profiling seriously?' It's the fucking Trump DOJ who asked the Supreme Court to allow it to continue to racially profile people in the country and got the stay THEY asked for.
The SC didn't just come forward with it on their own volition.
...from the temporary order in the 'emergency' filing by the Trump DOJ:
K AVANAUGH, J., concurring SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES No. 25A169 KRISTI NOEM, SECRETARY, DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY, ET AL. v. PEDRO VASQUEZ PERDOMO, ET AL. ON APPLICATION FOR STAY [September 8, 2025]
The application for stay presented to J USTICE KAGAN and by her referred to the Court is granted. The July 11, 2025 order entered by the United States District Court for the Central District of California, case No. 2:25–cv–5605, is stayed pending the disposition of the appeal in the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and disposition of a petition for a writ of certiorari, if such a writ is timely sought. Should certiorari be denied, this stay shall terminate automatically. In the event certiorari is granted, the stay shall terminate upon the sending down of the judgment of this Court.
JUSTICE KAVANAUGH, concurring in the grant of the application for stay. I vote to grant the Government’s application for an interim stay pending appeal of the District Court’s injunction. The Immigration and Nationality Act authorizes immigration officers to “interrogate any alien or person believed to be an alien as to his right to be or to remain in the United States.” Immigration officers “may briefly detain” an individual “for questioning” if they have “a reasonable suspicion, based on specific articulable facts, that the person being questioned . . . is an alien illegally in the United States.”
The reasonable suspicion inquiry turns on the “totality of the particular circumstances.” The Government estimates that at least 15 million people are in the United States illegally. Many millions illegally entered (or illegally overstayed) just in the last few years. Illegal immigration is especially pronounced in the Los Angeles area, among other locales in the United States. About 10 percent of the people in the Los Angeles region are illegally in the United States—meaning about 2 million illegal immigrants out of a total population of 20 million. Not surprisingly given those extraordinary numbers, U. S. immigration officers have prioritized immigration enforcement in the Los Angeles area.
The Government sometimes makes brief investigative stops to check the immigration status of those who gather in locations where people are hired for day jobs; who work or appear to work in jobs such as construction, landscaping, agriculture, or car washes that often do not require paperwork and are therefore attractive to illegal immigrants; and who do not speak much if any English. If the officers learn that the individual they stopped is a U. S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, they promptly let the individual go. If the individual is illegally in the United States, the officers may arrest the individual and initiate the process for removal. Immigration stops based on reasonable suspicion of illegal presence have been an important component of U. S. immigration enforcement for decades, across several presidential administrations.
In this case, however, the District Court enjoined U. S. immigration officers from making investigative stops in the Los Angeles area when the stops are based on the following factors or combination of factors: (i) presence at particular locations such as bus stops, car washes, day laborer pickup sites, agricultural sites, and the like; (ii) the type of work one does; (iii) speaking Spanish or speaking English with an accent; and (iv) apparent race or ethnicity.
The Government contends that the injunction will substantially hamper its efforts to enforce the immigration laws in the Los Angeles area. The Government has therefore asked this Court to stay the District Court’s injunction
The application for stay presented to J USTICE KAGAN and by her referred to the Court is granted. The July 11, 2025 order entered by the United States District Court for the Central District of California, case No. 2:25–cv–5605, is stayed pending the disposition of the appeal in the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and disposition of a petition for a writ of certiorari, if such a writ is timely sought. Should certiorari be denied, this stay shall terminate automatically. In the event certiorari is granted, the stay shall terminate upon the sending down of the judgment of this Court.
JUSTICE KAVANAUGH, concurring in the grant of the application for stay. I vote to grant the Government’s application for an interim stay pending appeal of the District Court’s injunction. The Immigration and Nationality Act authorizes immigration officers to “interrogate any alien or person believed to be an alien as to his right to be or to remain in the United States.” Immigration officers “may briefly detain” an individual “for questioning” if they have “a reasonable suspicion, based on specific articulable facts, that the person being questioned . . . is an alien illegally in the United States.”
The reasonable suspicion inquiry turns on the “totality of the particular circumstances.” The Government estimates that at least 15 million people are in the United States illegally. Many millions illegally entered (or illegally overstayed) just in the last few years. Illegal immigration is especially pronounced in the Los Angeles area, among other locales in the United States. About 10 percent of the people in the Los Angeles region are illegally in the United States—meaning about 2 million illegal immigrants out of a total population of 20 million. Not surprisingly given those extraordinary numbers, U. S. immigration officers have prioritized immigration enforcement in the Los Angeles area.
The Government sometimes makes brief investigative stops to check the immigration status of those who gather in locations where people are hired for day jobs; who work or appear to work in jobs such as construction, landscaping, agriculture, or car washes that often do not require paperwork and are therefore attractive to illegal immigrants; and who do not speak much if any English. If the officers learn that the individual they stopped is a U. S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, they promptly let the individual go. If the individual is illegally in the United States, the officers may arrest the individual and initiate the process for removal. Immigration stops based on reasonable suspicion of illegal presence have been an important component of U. S. immigration enforcement for decades, across several presidential administrations.
In this case, however, the District Court enjoined U. S. immigration officers from making investigative stops in the Los Angeles area when the stops are based on the following factors or combination of factors: (i) presence at particular locations such as bus stops, car washes, day laborer pickup sites, agricultural sites, and the like; (ii) the type of work one does; (iii) speaking Spanish or speaking English with an accent; and (iv) apparent race or ethnicity.
The Government contends that the injunction will substantially hamper its efforts to enforce the immigration laws in the Los Angeles area. The Government has therefore asked this Court to stay the District Court’s injunction
Vance not only lied about the administration's insistence to the courts that their agents be allowed to racially profile, but promised to take that duplicity back to Washington....to do what, promote that lie to the American people?
Or, more likely, Vance will try to shrink back under his rock and hope no one actually thinks twice about what he told reporters (and residents) at his Minnesota presser; hope no one notices how he blamed the people there for his own administration's agent's brutality; hope there are still some there who don't yet realize that every bad thing they're experiencing at the hands of ICE and border patrol flows from WH directives against their state.
It's not just the brutality directed against people in this country by the Trump government, it's the utter contempt and disregard expressed for the lives and safety for the people in that state and elsewhere from the president and people in this administration who are sworn to protect and defend them.
I'm going to remind again that I haven't left my home to go anywhere in months. It's mainly about the profiling. I resemble someone who hails from my birthplace of Brooklyn. Could be Latin American, could be Somalian... that's how ICE has been rolling, so there it is.
I won't deliberately subject myself to the brutal lottery practiced by roving agents in my state. I won't comply and I'll very likely get hurt. My family, btw, agrees with me. Besides, the anxiety is almost crippling.
These aren't just lies Vance, Trump, and their co-conspirators are perpetrating; they're overt threats to millions of Americans and naturalized citizens who they couldn't care less about treating like second-class citizens to effect their Nazi purge of people who don't look like them.
They call everyone they target and abuse a 'criminal,' with the arrogance of a domestic abuser justifying their bullying and beatings to their victim. They are predators emboldened by the impunity they've enjoyed for their own wanton criminality behind their republican Congress .
And here's Vance acting out like a little boy whose mommy won't allow to keep hitting her with his toy. A total worm.
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