Why the fuck did I lose my freedom of movement rights, assumption of innocence just because I'm not white?
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...all to effect this president's partisan partisan political policy of mass deportations?
Racial profiling is illegal, and police can't lawfully stop individuals solely based on their race or ethnicity. Officers cannot detain someone based on a hunch or simply for being in a “high crime area” without more specific suspicion.
That alone makes the Supreme Court's ruling allowing ICE to detain individuals based partly on the color of their skin an abomination against Americans' constitutional and legal rights. But it's not that simple.
The Trump administration argued, and was rejected all the way up to the Supreme Court, that their use of race and other factors they claimed ICE agents were taking into account when detaining people; instead of the 'reasonable suspicion' standard that police are held to for everyone else in the country; wasn't just racial profiling.
However, the maga majority which has grown accustomed to rubber stamping unprecedented power grabs by Donald Trump; allowances for acts which have been considered illegal or improper for all presidents who preceded him, gave 'temporary' permission for ICE to continue the racist profiling practice that is considered by the courts to be abhorrent when applied to Americans; their majority ruling behind a majority opinion by Justice Kavanaugh which implied that picking people out based on the color of their skin, or where they work, or how they speak is a minor inconvenience.
“As for stops of those individuals who are legally in the country, the questioning in those circumstances is typically brief, and those individuals may promptly go free after making clear to the immigration officers that they are U.S. citizens or otherwise legally in the United States,” he wrote.
Of course, the news reports that everyone is watching show that people are being detained on the street, where they work, and in any public place, and held based solely on their dark skin and non-white appearance. There's no evidence that ICE agents are employing the "four-point' test where race isn't the only factor. That's an absurdity that strains credulity, naively assuming the targets' dark skin isn't the ONLY, if not primary factor in the agent's interest in the first place.
Moreover, there isn't any protection in this order for citizens who share those physical characteristics that ICE agents are targeting, and an increasing number are getting caught up in these 'mass deportation' dragnets where sometimes hundreds of people are corralled and detained, even after being show identification or informed that their subject is a U.S. citizen, many subjected to abusive and invasive intake and detention conditions and often held for days before ICE decided they can't hold them anymore.
No police agency other than the Supreme Court-protected ICE agency is allowed to, or dares to violate rights as flagrantly and routinely, with impunity, as ICE is being allowed after arrogantly violating this law and expectation that ALL Americans are entitled to in their interactions with police officers.
Trouble for Americans with this ruling is that ICE has no credible means to distinguish between non-citizens and citizens based on appearance; NONE, other than this southern cracker test that assumes you can tell an 'illegal' by their skin color. What the hell else is anyone with a brain supposed to assume ICE agents are using to identify the people they detain who are waking down the street, or going to the market, or working as vendors, or dropping their kids off at school?
Besides the obvious conclusion that virtually no white people are being detained by these jump-out squads of immigration agents with the suspicion that they are in the country illegally because they're a vendor, or delivery person, or working landscaping, it's should stand to reason for anyone other than the sheltered, pampered members of a lifetime seat on the bench that more than just undocumented people work in those professions.
What becomes of them? Why have they been deigned by the Supreme Court as mere collateral in Trump's 'war' on American cities?
Goddammit, my country needs to stop lying to me behind their racial fears, and prevaricating about the allowances white people are being afforded against these specters of their politically inflated imaginations; sanctioning armed agents and soldiers to regard dark-skinned people as the 'enemy within' this nation we support and defend with our labor and our service.
Where in actual hell are the protections for people of color in this nation against the deliberate terror being inflicted against them in the nation by federal agents and the military, backed up by a partisan majority on a nine member star-chamber court that didn't even bother to spell out reasoning for their own ruling?
Why am I being made by that court to forfeit MY rights against deprivation of rights under color of law based on race, color, or national origin, ensuring equal protection under the law (Title 18 U.S.C. § 242), to allow a deportation policy, of which, they haven't actually bothered to definitively rule on its constitutionality?
This a situation that Kavanaugh conjured up in his opinion, claiming without proof, against evidence that, "questioning in those circumstances is typically brief, and those individuals may promptly go free after making clear to the immigration officers that they are U.S. citizens or otherwise legally in the United States.":
That isn't happening. The opposite is happening, and an increasing number of citizens are being caught up in a brutal regime of arrests and detentions by ICE agents who do not verify or accept representations by anyone they've been detaining, opting to take targets back to headquarters and release them only when they are satisfied they can't hold them anymore.
That's unconstitutional for anyone in the country, The Constitution doesn't discriminate in any way between non-citizens and citizens in it's proclamations of equality and due process. The document refers to the 'people' in it's description of protections and rights, but the politicians and the courts have bastardized those values that they reserve only for the people in this country they choose to protect; mostly white people, like in this instance where ALL people of color have been deliberately left vulnerable in this 'temporary' and wholly opportunistic evisceration of my citizenship rights to advantage the president's cynical declaration of an 'emergency' to effect his political policy of mass deportations.
NOTHING in the Constitution says I must be expected to forfeit my protections and rights to effect some political policy. The Constitution protects individual rights from government suspension primarily through the Habeas Corpus Clause, which states that the government cannot suspend this right without extraordinary circumstances, such as a rebellion or invasion.
There is no rebellion or invasion occurring, defined under the clause as an attack on the government, not the migration of peaceful refugees that the Trump administration is targeting with their mass deportation scheme.
Where the fuck did MY rights go, America? How did I lose my right to freedom of movement, or forfeit my protections against racial profiling or selective detention just because my skin isn't WHITE??
Every fucking day I take the time to explain myself on this, and every fucking day my words fade and fall from these pages like the tears I shed over the state of the country I was born in ; the country which has, once again marginalized me assuming my life isn't worth the same as my white counterparts.
Think about that as you interact with me here.
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It’s ridiculous that this got only nine replies and was on page 4 of GD when I went to kick it. This is the *lived experience* of a treasured, longtime member of our community! 
