The Supreme Court Decision on ICE and Racial Profiling, Explained NYT | Top Stories By: Charlie Savage 9 September 2025 at 05:21 The ruling allowed immigration agents to stop people for reasons that lower courts had deemed likely unconstitutional. © Tierney L. Cross/The New York TimesCivil rights organizations and several U.S. citizens accused federal agents of engaging in “blatant racial profiling” by carrying out “indiscriminate immigration operations” with no individualized basis for suspicion.