Noah Feldman, Columnist

The Supreme Court’s ICE Raids Ruling Is Shameful

The conservative majority essentially decided it’s OK to use racial profiling in immigration enforcement.

September 8, 2025 at 8:12 PM UTC

Noah Feldman is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist. A professor of law at Harvard University, he is author, most recently, of “To Be a Jew Today: A New Guide to God, Israel, and the Jewish People."

Every American should be worried about this ruling.
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In a ruling likely to go down in history as a shameful expression of anti-immigrant prejudice, the Supreme Court has allowed ICE agents to re-start “roving stops” of people suspected of being undocumented immigrants because of what they look like, how they speak, and where they are gathered to work or seek employment.

The 6-3 ruling in the court’s emergency docket reversed a July order by federal district court judge in Los Angeles, which found ICE had failed to meet the legal requirement of “reasonable suspicion” for conducting the stops.