the Voice of
The Communist League of Revolutionary Workers–Internationalist
“The emancipation of the working class will only be achieved by the working class itself.”
— Karl Marx
the Voice of
The Communist League of Revolutionary Workers–Internationalist
“The emancipation of the working class will only be achieved by the working class itself.”
— Karl Marx
Sep 15, 2025
On September 8, the U.S. Supreme Court supplied a great big green light for the Trump administration’s campaign of terror against immigrant communities. By a 6-3 margin, the Supreme Court justices ruled that it was perfectly okay for roving bands of masked federal agents to indiscriminately target anyone who they claimed looked “suspicious.”
The Supreme Court made clear that this includes anyone who they claim looks or sounds “foreign.” And so is “anyone who works or appears to work in construction, landscaping, agriculture, or car washes,” wrote Justice Brett Kavanaugh in his concurring opinion.
In other words, anyone who happens to be a low-wage worker has a target on their backs.
Not surprisingly, several Democratic Party leaders expressed outrage at this latest Supreme Court decision. California Governor Gavin Newsom even promised that “we will continue fighting these abhorrent attacks on Californians.”
But working people should have no illusions that the Democrats are coming to anyone’s rescue. For the ICE deportation machine was not an invention of Donald Trump. Over the last decades, it was built, brick by brick, by both Democrats and Republicans alike. President Barack Obama became known as the “deporter in chief” for deporting three million people from the country. This was more than all the deportations carried out by all previous presidential administrations during the entire 20th century combined!
Neither is racial profiling against immigrants anything new. In 2014, the second Obama administration decided against removing exceptions for racial and ethnic profiling in immigration enforcement. The Biden administration continued this policy of racial and ethnic profiling.
All the Trump administration has done is carry out these attacks on a much bigger and more public scale. But both the Democrats and Republicans have made clear that immigrants, and those who merely look like immigrants, have few if any legal rights.
This should not be a surprise. Both parties represent the interests of the capitalist class, which increasingly depends on terrorizing the working class into accepting low wages and poor working conditions in order to increase corporate profits ever more.