ACLU of Georgia Executive Director Andrea Young appeared on an 11Alive+ newscast Friday to discuss a Supreme Court ruling handed down earlier this week, which granted the federal government’s request to pause a court order that prohibited federal agencies from continuing their unlawful actions in Los Angeles and surrounding counties.
Watch Young’s full interview below or here.
The 6-3 decision, which provided no reasoning, reverses a ruling from two lower courts in Perdomo v. Noem that bars immigration agents from stopping people without reasonable suspicion and from relying solely on four factors — alone or in combination — including apparent race or ethnicity; speaking Spanish or English with an accent; presence in a particular location like a bus stop, car wash, or agricultural site; or the type of work a person does.