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LA Immigrant Communities on Edge After Supreme Court Ruling on ICE Arrests

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News, News Commentary, Politics

4.2 • 727 Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Immigrant rights advocates are warning of increased racial profiling and more aggressive Immigration and Customs Enforcement tactics in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision to temporarily lift a federal judge’s order that barred the agency from detaining people without probable cause. Concerns intensified after the Department of Homeland Security announced on social media that law enforcement would “flood the zone” in Los Angeles. We look at what’s happening on the ground and where the law stands. Guests: Ahilan Arulanantham, law professor and faculty co-director, Center for Immigration Law and Policy, UCLA School of Law - former Legal Director ACLU of Southern California Andrea Castillo, staff writer covering immigration, LA Times Marissa Montes, professor of law and director, Loyola Immigrant Justice Clinic, Loyola Law School Rob Bonta, California Attorney General Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Coming up on forum, immigrant rights groups are warning of increased racial profiling

0:55.9

and more aggressive immigration and custom enforcement tactics after the Supreme Court last week

1:01.6

lifted a federal judge's order that barred ICE from detaining people without reasonable suspicion

1:06.3

or based on race or language spoken. Concerns intensified after the Department of Homeland Security announced on social media

1:14.1

that law enforcement would flood the zone in Los Angeles.

1:18.2

This hour, we look at what's happening on the ground and where the law stands.

1:22.4

Join us.

1:45.5

And so many our calls from you, our listeners, like this one from Stephanie, who called into our

1:50.0

show about the devastating floods in Texas over 4th of July, when many of you shared your

1:54.5

concern for the victims and offered insight with your own experience of floods. For Stephanie,

1:59.1

it brought up the harrowing memory of barely surviving

2:01.5

one. I was in a flash flood in my car and ended up being washed over an embankment and into

2:10.1

a reservoir and a car sink. And of the 20-some people in that in that who went into the reservoir

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