Protecting Due Process in Our Communities 

US Supreme Court Rules to Allow Unconstitutional Racial Profiling 

This week, the US Supreme Court decided to maintain protections that allow for unconstitutional racial profiling in California. Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s powerful dissent of Noem v. Perdomo captures what is at stake:

"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. Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent."

HIP is outraged that this ruling paves the way for government-sanctioned targeting of our communities—Black, Latine, and Asian alike. Families will live with renewed fear —going to work, picking up children, speaking our languages—can be grounds for detention.

The Court’s action will deepen generational trauma already inflicted by deportations, family separations, and racialized policing. It has fractured trust in schools, workplaces, and neighborhoods. It tells our people—millions of U.S. citizens and lawful residents included—that their mere existence is “fair game” for government harassment.

This moment is not simply a legal matter—it is a moral crisis. The Court has turned its back on the very protections of the Fourth Amendment, eroding a fundamental safeguard against government overreach. The result will be profound pain, division, and conflict for generations to come.

HIP stands with Justice Sotomayor’s dissent and with our communities on the frontlines of this attack. We call on philanthropy, civil society, and every sector of leadership to mobilize resources, solidarity, and protection for our communities—because freedom and dignity are not negotiable.