ICE To 'Flood The Zone.' Newsom Warns Of 'Parade Of Racial Terror' In Wake Of SCOTUS Ruling

The U.S. Supreme Court On Monday granted the Trump administration’s emergency request to lift a temporary restraining order that prohibited immigration authorities from conducting “roving patrols” and profiling people based on their skin color, ethnicity, accent or line of work in Southern California.

Experts say the decision is likely to have a large impact in the Southland and across the country, as immigration agents have the go-ahead to legally resume street raids that began in early June In Los Angeles. Critics such as California Gov. Gavin Newsom said, the ruling unleashes a "parade of racial terror" in Los Angeles.

Here are five things to know about the decision:

Enforcement Operations Resumed Immediately — And Aggressively

The Department of Homeland Security in a social media post promised to “continue to FLOOD THE ZONE in Los Angeles” after the high court's decision.

The region has been a top priority for the Trump administration, and its hard-line immigration strategy has spurred protests and the deployment of the National Guard and the U.S. Marines.

The number of raids in the LA area appeared to slow shortly after a lower court judge banned the roving patrols in July. Recently they have become more frequent, including an operation in which agents jumped out of the back of a rented box truck and made arrests at an LA Home Depot store.

Attorney General Pam Bondi and border czar Tom Homan both separately applauded the ruling.

“Now, ICE can continue carrying out roving patrols in California without judicial micromanagement,” Bondi wrote in a social media post.

Gregory K. Bovino, the Border Patrol's Los Angeles chief, wrote in a post that "we are going hard in Los Angeles today and are hitting a location as I write this."

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The Case Was On The Court's 'Shadow Docket'

The high court took up the case through its emergency docket, also known as the shadow docket.

The docket is used for cases that are handled quickly: Justices do not have to publish an opinion when they act from the emergency docket. The decision came with limited briefing, no oral arguments and limited explanation.

Still, Justice Brett Kavanaugh offered a small window into the conservative majority's reasoning with a concurring opinion.

He wrote that ethnicity alone does not constitute a legal stop by immigration authorities, "however, it can be a ‘relevant factor’ when considered with other salient factors.”

"There is an extremely high number and percentage of illegal immigrants in the Los Angeles area; that those individuals tend to gather in certain locations to seek daily work; that those individuals often work in certain kinds of jobs, such as day labor, landscaping, agriculture, and construction, that do not require paperwork and are therefore especially attractive to illegal immigrants; and that many of those illegally in the Los Angeles area come from Mexico or Central America and do not speak much English,” he wrote.

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The dissenting justices, all appointed by Democrats, voiced opposition to making a decision without oral argument.

“That decision is yet another grave misuse of our emergency docket,” Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote in the dissent. “We should not have to live in a country where the Government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job.”

The Court Has Recently Favored The Trump Administration

The decision was made by 6-3 vote on the Supreme Court.

All six justices who sided with the Trump administration were appointed by Republican presidents. Three of them were appointed by Trump.

The high court has signed with Trump in at least 17 cases in a row, Cal Matters reported.

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The court's favoring of Trump policies was called out by Gov. Gavin Newsom in his response to Monday's decision.

“Trump’s hand-picked Supreme Court majority just became the Grand Marshal for a parade of racial terror in Los Angeles. This isn’t about enforcing immigration laws — it’s about targeting Latinos and anyone who doesn’t look or sound like Stephen Miller’s idea of an American, including U.S. citizens and children, to deliberately harm California’s families and small businesses,” Newsom said, referring to Trump’s deputy chief of staff.

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The Fight's Not Over, Advocates Say

The justices didn't actually decide a final outcome in the case.

The conservative majority lifted a temporary restraining order that was put in place by a lower court judge, who found that roving patrols were conducting indiscriminate stops in and around LA.

The 6-3 decision allows federal authorities to conduct stops in that manner — at least temporarily. There's room for the possibility of a different outcome after the legal case plays out fully.

On Sept. 24, Judge Maame E. Frimpong — who put the restraining order in place — will hear arguments on whether to issue a preliminary injunction based on what is expected to be additional evidence presented by plaintiffs.

Such an injunction could once again mean that authorities are prohibited from conducting such stops.

LA Leader Calls The Ruling "Government-Sanctioned Oppression"

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass called the ruling "un-American" and a danger to working families in the region.

She said the high court ruled federal agents "can racially profile Angelenos with no due process, snatch them off the street with no evidence or warrant, and take them away with no explanation."

Assemblyman Mark González, D-Los Angeles, of Los Angeles said the Supreme Court decision "unleashes" what he called "government-sanctioned oppression."

"This wannabe king and his allies didn't just overturn a judge's common-sense order — they shredded the constitutional protections that are supposed to shield us from government overreach and racism," he said in a statement. "This ruling gives ICE a green light to hunt people down based on the color of their skin, the language they speak, or where they work."

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Mohammad Tajsar, senior staff attorney at the ACLU Foundation of Southern California — which brought the lawsuit against the Trump administration — said the decision make sit clear the government's "enforcement operation in Southern California is driven by race."

"This decision is a devastating setback for our plaintiffs and communities who, for months, have been subjected to immigration stops because of the color of their skin, occupation, or the language they speak," he said.

City News Service and the Associated Press contributed to this report.