Justice Sotomayor cites Trump's remarks against Mexicans, immigrants behind decision to end DACA
"I would not so readily dismiss the allegation that an executive decision disproportionately harms the same racial group that the President branded as less desirable," wrote Sotomayor.
June 18, 2020, 5:42 PM EDT
By Raul A. Reyes
While Dreamers and immigration advocates were celebrating Thursday’s Supreme Court ruling that blocked the Trump administration from ending the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (DACA), Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor pointed out in a separate opinion that the high court’s majority did not get everything right.
There was, in her view, something else that should not have gone unnoticed.
Sotomayor drew a clear line between President Donald Trump’s history of remarks against Mexicans and immigrants and the administration's position on DACA. She wrote that “something other than questions about the legality of DACA” was behind the administration’s decision to end the program.
The president’s words, in her view, provided important context. Trump has called Mexican immigrants “people with lots of problems” “the bad ones,” and “criminals, drug dealers and rapists,” and compared undocumented immigrants to “animals," she wrote.
The decision to end the DACA program, Sotomayor stated, was “contaminated by the impermissible discriminatory animus” —and she called out her colleagues for not acknowledging this.
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