The Supreme Court delivered a key victory for President Donald Trump’s immigration agenda this week, allowing federal authorities to continue carrying out raids in California despite efforts by local leaders and activist groups to block them.
In a 6-3 decision along ideological lines, the high court granted the Trump administration’s request to proceed with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids in Los Angeles County while the case continues in the Ninth Circuit.
The Monday ruling temporarily overturns a lower-court injunction from July that had blocked the raids.
A federal judge had sided with plaintiffs who argued the operations violated the Fourth Amendment, and the Ninth Circuit upheld that order.
The Trump administration appealed directly to the Supreme Court, warning that the injunction effectively paralyzed ICE’s ability to enforce federal immigration law in one of the nation’s largest metro areas.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor dissented, blasting the order as “troubling” and accusing the majority of allowing unconstitutional seizures.
“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 wrote.
Reversal of Fortunes in California
The decision comes just after a Democrat-aligned federal judge in California dealt Trump a legal setback by blocking his administration’s effort to revoke Temporary Protected Status (TPS) from certain migrants.
As Slay News reported, that ruling was quickly seized on by Democrats as proof that the courts would rein in Trump’s immigration crackdown.
But the Supreme Court’s latest action demonstrates the opposite.
Trump’s policies are finding traction at the highest levels of the judiciary.
Unlike the TPS decision, which is still working its way through the appeals process, the raid ruling sends a clear message that the Court is willing to let federal enforcement continue while challenges play out.
For Trump, it’s a significant turnaround.
The president has repeatedly blasted California’s sanctuary policies, saying they endanger public safety and encourage illegal immigration.
Allowing ICE raids to resume undercuts those policies directly.
Trump’s Broader Immigration Push
The ruling also aligns with Trump’s broader promise to restore law and order in America’s cities.
The president has already floated deploying the National Guard to crime-plagued areas like Chicago and Baltimore and has touted his new Everglades detention facility in Florida as a model for mass deportations.
Now, with the Supreme Court’s blessing, Trump’s crackdown in Los Angeles can move forward, even as liberal judges and activists continue their fight in the Ninth Circuit.
For a president who has made immigration enforcement a central pillar of his agenda, the ruling is not just a legal win.
It’s a signal that his policies are gaining institutional support, even in a state that has tried to defy him at every turn.
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