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SCOTUS has endorsed using "apparent ethnicity" as grounds for a stop: https://www.scotusblog.com/2025/09/justice-brett-kavanaugh-and-racial-proxies/ https://ww
by roywiggins 1y ago
SCOTUS has endorsed using "apparent ethnicity" as grounds for a stop:
https://www.scotusblog.com/2025/09/justice-brett-kavanaugh-and-racial-proxies/ https://www.scotusblog.com/2025/09/justice-brett-kavanaugh-a...
Bovino says they do profile people on how they look:
> “Then, obviously, the particular characteristics of an individual, how they look. How do they look compared to, say, you?” he said to the reporter, a tall, middle-aged man of Anglo descent.
https://www.wbez.org/immigration/2025/09/29/feds-march-into-downtown-chicago-top-border-agent-says-people-are-arrested-based-on-how-they-look https://www.wbez.org/immigration/2025/09/29/feds-march-into-...
- tootie 1y agoWe're calling them Kavanaugh Stops. Legalized racial profiling.
- FireBeyond 1y agoAbsolutely. I'm a legal immigrant, but delays in processing and other things when I had to adjust status after divorcing from my US citizen wife (I moved here on a K-1 fiance visa) had me involving an immigration attorney, who made the comment, "I hate saying this, but it's true. You're the right color, and with where you're coming from (Australia), nobody cares about checking up on you."
- RajT88 1y agoAll those illegal Polish immigrants in Chicagoland (of which there are many) seem to be doing just fine.
- roywiggins 1y agodeportations are up among other groups too (this isn't meant to suggest they aren't racially profiling): > The number of Irish citizens deported from the United States has risen by more than 50% so far in 2025 compared to the previous year, figures released to BBC News NI show. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g78nj7701o https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g78nj7701o
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