Overview

• By staying a district-court injunction, the Court lifted limits that had barred stops based solely on appearance, language, location or type of work, a ruling the Ninth Circuit had previously affirmed.
• Homeland Security signaled an immediate ramp-up in Los Angeles operations, and officials announced a new ICE action in Illinois that targets Chicago.
• Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s concurrence cited reasonable-suspicion standards under a totality-of-circumstances test, while Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented, warning of racial profiling.
• Plaintiffs including the ACLU, Public Counsel and labor groups say the tactics have unlawfully swept up Latino residents and even U.S. citizens, as California leaders Gavin Newsom and Karen Bass condemned the decision.
• The order arrives after a major Georgia workplace raid at a Hyundai site where about 475 people were detained, with South Korea arranging the return of more than 300 of its nationals.