The Trump administration's emergency demand for a stay has set the stage for the U.S. Supreme Court to allow or prevent U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) from stopping, questioning, detaining and potentially arresting people in a "roving" manner in California on the idea that an individual's Hispanic appearance, speaking in Spanish or speaking English with an accent, day labor occupation, and location amount to "reasonable suspicion" of unlawful presence in the country.
The petitioners, led by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi, and represented by John Sauer, the U.S. solicitor general and former attorney for President Donald Trump , are challenging U.S. District Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong's block of sweeping and "roving" ICE ra