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Christian Ramirez was on his way to school 35 years ago when a border patrol agent approached him under shooting. At that time, only 15 years old, San Diegan was apparently handcuffed on the streets of Nestor’s border community, wrongly and racially profiled.

Ramirez recalled the incident in Facebook post Recently, after the Supreme Court fell apart with a lower courts, with a large decision to apply immigration arising from the attacks of this summer in Los Angeles. In Decision 6-3, the highest court on earth gave federal immigration agents the green light To resume roving patrols as a means of indiscriminate stopping and questioning people about their immigration status – based on how they look, the language they speak, the type of work they do or just where they can stand.

For Ramirez, now the political director of Seiu United Service West workers, this is not new. He told me that the border patrol, the federal agency with a 101-year history of border implementation, has always acted with impunity. The racial profiling “has always been the norm in the borders”.

Now the rest of California gets the same treatment.

Justice Brett Cavano’s compatible opinion Rationalized profiling to the level of eye opening, writing that “these people often work in certain types of jobs, such as daily work, landscaping, agriculture and construction” and many “do not speak much English”.

Since a Raid to Kern County in JanuaryVideos of masked federal agents pursuing mainly Latin American workers at home landfills, car washes or parks – without taking into account the legal status or criminal history – have completed social media emissions in California. But for justice, Cavano, “If the officers learn that the individual they have stopped is a US citizen or legally in the United States, they immediately release the individual.”

The desirable thinking or privileged ignorance of Cavano would believe that meetings were just inconvenience. On the contrary, they were quite catastrophic.

Silverrio Wilegas-Gonosalez, a 38-year-old father of two, represents The last victimS Earlier this month, a Chicago ice agent shot and killed Villegas-Gonzalez during traffic stopping. In Ventura County in July, Jaime Alanis died of injuries He is maintained in an attempt to escape from agents, invading a legal potter for a pot.

What Ramirez is experiencing as a child – and countless others in Southern Diego District – is certainly not unique. The difference now is that it happens far from the border.

Together with the US FRIEND CONTRACT COMMITTEE and UNION DEL BARRIO, I helped Document patrols in San Diego For nearly a decade in the 2000s. Border patrol agents are investigating buses and carts in San Diego, harassing thousands of people based on appearance or if they spoke Spanish and have directed the working -class neighborhoods during the busy travel times. We have found that anyone can be a goal, even if they seek asylum during a natural disaster or transit to get to school.

In 2003, chief of the border patrol sector William Weil He issued a note ending with Roving patrols, but was quickly canceled by Robert Bonner, then the customs commissioner and the border defense he called it. “too wide and restrictiveS “

When President Obama refreshed federal policy, limiting federal agencies to use racial profiling in 2014, his administration excluded CBP agents Who could “think about race and ethnicity when stopping people at airports, border crossings and immigration checkpoints.”

In height of anti -immigrant movement in California In 1994, agents of the border patrol of the bikes stopped me in the center of San Diego and questioned me about my status. They insisted in a broken Spanish that I should show them “documents”.

About 20 years ago, the digital immigration agent detained my father in front of a grocery store, a block from his home in southern San Diego. The agent similarly asked him if there were documents.

My father always carried an old government issued to US citizens to facilitate border crossings. The immigration agent did not know what to do with the antique document.

The racial profiling and its impact on my family returned to the 1930s, when immigration agents forcibly rounded up and forcibly deported hundreds of thousands of people in violation of the US Constitution, including US citizens. Immigration agents sent my grandparents to Mexico, although they were born in Los Angeles.

Donald Trump’s radical vision for mass deportations glittering the cruelty of this historical period. He wants to surpass these numbers.

Norma Chavez-Peterson, Executive Director of the American Union of San Diego Civil Freedoms and Imperial Cities, was a classmate of trial Against the Ministry of Interior Security, after LA attacks unfolded in June. In an email, she told me that the Supreme Court’s decision “strengthens the Trump administration and allows for their broader power to weaken the constitutional protection of all people.

“At the moment, the decision directly affects immigrants and people in Los Angeles and the surrounding regions – and it will not stop there,” she continued. “When a person’s rights are removed, the thread that binds all our freedoms begins to fall apart.”

With the Supreme Court, which penalizes racial profiling in how immigration agents can indifferently question people, the newly built internal security budget can lead to thousands of more agents that unleashed on US streets, and is catastrophic to our understanding of how constitutional defenses should be applied.

In San Diego, the selected employees held a press conference announcing an initiative throughout the county to promote a proper process and public safety in San Diego County.

“The regulation on the proper process and dignity,” said San Diego City Council member, Sean Ello-Rivera, “reacts by drawing clear, legitimate boundaries around what can and cannot happen to urban controlled and funded property. It also requires that it is also the case and those who were more than the Under. It provides all people who are in place to make sure in their process and, by doing so, also provides all people who are able to make sure that everyone in San Diego is, and those who were more secure than the Scottish decision.

Ramirez, the SEIU employee, believes that “it will deprive the creation of movement outside the halls of justice and the legislative bodies to overturn racism codified by the Supreme Court.”

He reminded me of a slogan borrowed from Puerto Rican students, resisting US troops at Vieques. It is now used by San Diego Community members to demonstrate power: “The migra did not leave, the city pulled it outAnd it will take us all. “

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