Supreme Court Greenlights ICE Raids Based on Race, Accent, or Proximity to Home Depot

LOS ANGELES — The Supreme Court on Monday cleared the way for immigration agents to once again treat Los Angeles as their own personal detention zone, allowing stops based on race, language, or simply standing too close to a stack of lumber outside Home Depot.

Justice Brett Kavanaugh defended the move, writing that “apparent ethnicity may be a relevant factor” in determining suspicion—a phrase critics likened to rebranding discrimination as “intuition.”

In dissent, Justice Sonia Sotomayor accused the majority of needlessly subjecting thousands more to the indignities of being grabbed, cuffed, and interrogated for buying plywood in the wrong zip code.

While the Trump administration insists race must never be a factor in college admissions or scholarships, the Supreme Court just handed ICE explicit permission to use race as a factor in roadside dragnets.

“Race can’t get you into college,” said California Attorney General Rob Bonta, “but apparently it can get you into a deportation van…”