For Immediate Release // Please Excuse Cross Posting
Wednesday, September 8th, 2025
Contact: Palmira Figueroa, 425-301-2764; pfigueroa@ndlon.org
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 8— The Supreme Court today lifted a lower court order meant to halt the Trump Administration’s terrorizing raids in Los Angeles.
The following is a statement from Pablo Alvarado, Co-Executive Director of the National Day Laborer Organizing Network (NDLON):
“Today the Court surrendered its legitimacy to Trump’s strongman agenda. It declared open season on immigrant workers – especially day laborers, who are among the most exposed and vulnerable targets of this regime.
“Today’s disgusting decision endorses and enables Trump’s authoritarian attacks on immigrants. It is a permission slip for racist assaults, lawless violence and random terror – handed out to the administration from the highest court in the land.
“Instead of upholding bedrock Constitutional rights against false arrest and racial profiling, as lower courts have consistently tried to do, the Supreme Court’s MAGA majority today validates Trump’s persistent belief that he can do – as he would put it – ‘whatever he wants.’
“What happens next is up to all of us. The legal system is failing. But we, the people, must not fail. We call on all people of good will to show up for and with immigrant workers. To stand with day laborers, carwash workers, farmworkers, and all other immigrants who are working to keep this country running, even as they are now terrorized by Trump.”
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