By Aaron Allen, The Seattle Medium

In a 6-3 decision in Vasquez Perdomo v. Noem, the U.S. Supreme Court granted an emergency request from the Trump administration, temporarily halting a lower court’s order that had blocked federal immigration agents from conducting street patrols and detaining individuals based on appearance, language, or perceived immigration status. The ruling, issued on the court’s shadow docket—a process that allows decisions without full briefing or oral arguments—overrides decisions from both a Los Angeles federal court and the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, which had found the practice amounted to illegal racial profiling.

The unsigned order now gives immigration agents broad latitude to stop and question people based on race or ethnicity, sparking outrage from civ

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