Supreme Court backs immigration raids

 Reuters:

The U.S. Supreme Court again backed President Donald Trump's hardline immigration approach on Monday, letting agents proceed with Southern California raids targeting people for deportation based on their race or language in a ruling its liberal justices said makes Latinos "fair game to be seized at any time." 

The court granted a Justice Department request to put on hold a judge's order that had barred agents from stopping or detaining people without "reasonable suspicion" that they are in the country illegally, by relying on race or ethnicity, or if they speak Spanish or English with an accent, among other factors.
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The court's brief and unsigned order, issued without any explanation, lifts the judge's restrictions while a legal challenge brought by a group of Latino people caught up in the raids plays out. 

Trump's administration quickly vowed to continue "roving patrols." The Republican president returned to office in January promising to escalate deportations, and immigration raids by masked and armed federal agents triggered street protests in Los Angeles that led him to send military troops in June into the largest city in the most-populous U.S. state.
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 If the person stopped is a citizen, they should be able to produce a birth certificate or other documentation.  Half the population in a town I grew up in was Hispanic, and they had no problem showing citizenship.  In fact, many of my Hispanic male friends join the military.  I served with some in the Marine Corps.