Sotomayor Scorches Supreme Court's Racial Profiling Ruling In Blistering Dissent

"The Constitution does not permit the creation of such a second-class citizenship status," the justice wrote in her dissent.

Justice Sonia Sotomayor issued a scathing dissent to Monday’s Supreme Court ruling authorizing immigration agents’ use of racial profiling, saying it’s “unconscionably irreconcilable” with the U.S. Constitution.

“We should not have to live in a country where the Government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job,” Sotomayor wrote.

Her dissent is peppered with documented instances of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Los Angeles this year using physical force to stop people they suspected of being in the U.S. illegally because of their location, jobs, apparent race or spoken language.

“Countless people in the Los Angeles area have been grabbed, thrown to the ground, and handcuffed simply because of their looks, their accents, and the fact they make a living by doing manual labor,” she continued. “Today, the Court needlessly subjects countless more to these exact same indignities.”

President Donald Trump’s administration, and now the nation’s highest court, have all but declared that “all Latinos, U. S. citizens or not, who work low wage jobs are fair game to be seized at any time, taken away from work, and held until they provide proof of their legal status to the agents’ satisfaction,” Sotomayor wrote in her response to Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s opinion for the 6-3 decision.