Could it include “reasonable suspicion?”
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Thank you for reading this post, don't forget to subscribe!The recent Supreme Court decision, written by Justice Kavanaugh, sending back a lower Federal court decision that had enjoined ICE agents in Los Angeles from simply asking a person under “reasonable suspicion” if they are a citizen, has caused a lot of grief on the Left. The Left thinks just asking the question violates the Constitution. Pompous Illinois Governor Pritzker has gone bonkers on the “constitutional crisis” of just asking the question. But when the question is asked of a suspected illegal migrant, such as a person whom ICE may be informed is an illegal migrant, or who is acting in public in a manner that common sense supports an illegal migrant might act, and then after the question is asked, they attempt to evade and run away from the questioner, the ensuing pursuit (after the Supreme Court decision) is now pretty clearly going to be a legal one, as is the arrest, if the person is indeed an illegal migrant, when the dust settles on the case law.
Kavanaugh explained that “reasonable suspicion” is not “probable cause.” You thus can’t just constitutionally arrest anyone on the street by the way they look or act, common sense notwithstanding, without “probable cause.” Doing that would indeed, 100%, violate the Constitution. But illegal migration is a big problem for America, and especially Los Angeles, where 2 million of 20 million residents are illegals, according to court-recognized statistics. The migrant population has indeed strained the social welfare system, clogging space in hospital emergency rooms and taxpayer-funded maternity wards, and while advocacy groups argue otherwise, there is no doubt that in light of income disparities between the ranks of citizens compared to the cohort of noncitizens, that the high level of illegal immigrants present in the Los Angeles area also contribute to a higher crime rate than if Federal law was actually being enforced.
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