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ICE doesn’t need more money or mercenaries. It needs accountability, oversight, and humanity.
#StopTheHunts #AbolishICE

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Finally, it’s an obscene waste of $180 million taxpayer dollars. That money could fund lawyers, housing, or community case management approaches that actually ensure safety and compliance without tearing families apart.

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Fourth, this move endangers immigrant communities. Imagine living in fear of unmarked cars and unknown men surveilling your neighborhood. This invites violence and chills trust in schools, hospitals, and local government.

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Third, it expands ICE’s surveillance state through backdoor contracts. By outsourcing to private firms, ICE can collect data and spy with even less oversight than it already faces.

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Second, it turns human beings into profit targets. Paying private investigators to “find” people creates a money motive for overreach, mistakes, and abuse echoing some of the ugliest chapters of American history.

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First, it privatizes immigration enforcement by handing coercive power to unaccountable contractors. These bounty hunters aren’t bound by civil rights protections but will still be surveilling people’s homes and lives.

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If you’re angry, you should be. If you’re scared, you’re not alone. We need abolition of the systems that make profiling possible. From ICE, prisons to policing itself. Until then, the Court will keep recycling the same violence under new names.

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The Court framed this as a temporary “procedural” ruling, but the harm is real and immediate. Communities in LA will feel the knock at the door tonight, not just in the law books.

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Let’s be clear: this decision doesn’t just affect immigrants. It normalizes racialized policing. It tells Black and Brown communities that our very presence is “reasonable suspicion.” That’s a dangerous precedent for everyone.

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The immediate impact: ICE can once again conduct sweeps across LA neighborhoods, targeting people based on how they look, sound, or where they work. And yes, that means U.S. citizens and lawful residents are at risk too.

4/ Justice Sotomayor, in dissent, put it bluntly:

“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.”

She’s right.

3/Today, SCOTUS (6–3) lifted those limits. The majority said race and ethnicity “can’t be the only factor,” but they can still be used alongside others like where you live or what job you work. That is profiling, plain and simple.

2/The case began when a federal judge in LA put limits on ICE raids. That judge said immigration officers could NOT stop people just for “looking Latino,” speaking Spanish, or being in certain workplaces. These stops were unconstitutional.

8/Real accountability means more than payouts and policy tweaks. It means ending the systems that allow repeat abusers to keep a badge. It means being bold enough to imagine real public safety solutions without police. #JusticeForShantelArnold #PoliceReform #Louisiana #JeffersonParish

7/ But let’s be clear:
🔹 This law only exists because of public exposure
🔹 It does not erase years of harm
🔹 It took a video, a lawsuit, and investigative journalism to force change