Supreme Court lifts restrictions on immigration stops in LA

The Supreme Court on Monday lifted a federal judge’s order prohibiting government agents from making indiscriminate immigration-related stops in the Los Angeles area that challengers called “blatant racial profiling.”

The court’s ruling for now allows what critics say are roving patrols of masked agents routinely violating the Fourth Amendment and what supporters say is a vigorous but lawful effort to enforce the nation’s immigration laws. The majority’s failure to explain the ruling means that it is hard to say whether its reasoning applies nationwide or is limited to the Los Angeles area, where the administration has said that the problems flowing from illegal immigration are especially pronounced.

Stephen Montoya, Partner at Montoya, Lucero & Pastor, joined “Arizona Horizon” to discuss what the end of these restrictions means for the future of immigration-related stops by ICE.