“ICE Off My Property” sign on a lawn (Photo – Melissa Michelson)
Senator Sasha Renée Pérez (D-Pasadena) issued a statement on Monday, August 11, condemning efforts to resume roving immigration raids in Los Angeles County, an initiative reportedly linked to the T. Administration. Pérez denounced the underlying rationale as racially discriminatory and warned of potential constitutional violations.
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“The notion that anyone who speaks Spanish, works in certain professions like construction, or lives in a particular neighborhood deserves to have militaristic and masked forces unleashed on them is racist,” Senator Pérez stated.
Drawing on her own family’s history in the construction trades, Pérez emphasized the personal and communal impact of such enforcement tactics. “Even as U.S. citizens, our family could have been targeted in these cruel raids,” she said.
A federal court recently granted a temporary restraining order halting the renewed raids, ruling that targeting individuals based on language, ethnicity, occupation, or location constitutes racial profiling. Pérez noted that such practices not only violate the Fourth Amendment’s protections against unreasonable searches and seizures but also breach the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
The case is now pending before the U.S. Supreme Court. In a powerful closing statement, Pérez remarked, “I pray that black robes will prevail over white hoods,” underscoring the high stakes of the Court’s forthcoming decision.
Someone please remind him that it’s his party that wore the hoods. And it’s his party that promotes racism,sympathizes with criminals, and wants everybody beneath them to be reliant on them. They are the epitome of hypocrites.