ICE Citizen Detentions Decried as `Kavanaugh Stops': The Brief

Oct. 21, 2025, 6:09 PM UTC

THE US SUPREME COURT in September cleared ICE to use tactics that critics say amount to racial profiling. Now, there’s shorthand circulating for encounters between immigration agents and lawful US residents: “Kavanaugh Stops,” reports Justin Wise.

  • The term refers to US Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s comments that encounters with immigration agents for legal residents are “typically brief” and affected individuals “promptly go free.” The comments came as the justices paused lower court rulings temporarily barring immigration agents from targeting people in Los Angeles based solely on apparent race, language, occupation, or presence at a location such as a car wash ...

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