Ask A Genius 1482: Trump Urges Supreme Court to Lift Immigration Arrest Limits Amid Racial Profiling Concerns
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Publication (Outlet/Website): Ask A Genius
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2025/08/08
President Trump has asked the Supreme Court to lift limits on immigration-related arrests in Southern California that were imposed to prevent racial profiling on language, accent, or appearance. Rick Rosner highlights that many detainees had no criminal records and that a DACA student was detained despite committing no crime. The discussion expands to transgender veterans being denied pensions as part of a punitive strategy. Rosner argues that Trump’s actions are driven by cruelty, greed, distraction.
Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Trump has asked the Supreme Court to lift limits on immigration-related arrests. What are your thoughts?
Rick Rosner: What limits? ICE agents have already been operating freely, arresting people indiscriminately—chemo patients, kids on chemo, you name it.
Jacobsen: This emergency filing concerns a lower court ruling that blocked federal agents from making immigration-related arrests in Los Angeles based on tactics considered racial profiling. The Justice Department asked the Supreme Court to halt the order that prevented agents from stopping or detaining people without “reasonable suspicion.”
So agents were stopping people without any objective justification—just assumptions based on language, accent, or appearance. The ruling mainly applied to Southern California.
Rosner: In practice, those arrested were rarely criminals. Last I checked, about 57% of individuals detained by ICE had no criminal record whatsoever—just overstaying a visa, which is a civil, not criminal, offence.
Of the remaining 43%, most did not commit serious crimes. A single DUI from 2008 should not define someone’s life. It is being used as a weak pretext for deportation.
Jacobsen: Any examples?
Rosner: Yes—one DACA student was pulled over for following a truck too closely on the highway. The officer gave her a warning and then tipped off ICE. Immigration agents later picked her up despite having committed no crime.
She has lived in the U.S. since age four and is close to graduating from college. It is not kind. It is not just immigration. The Department of Defence recently stated that military personnel who have served more than 15 years are eligible for pensions.
However, now they are denying pensions to transgender Air Force veterans who have served over 15 years. There is no valid reason for this, other than to be intentionally punitive. These individuals did their jobs. They earned their pensions. Now they are being excluded purely because they are trans.
It is a pattern—targeting groups his base dislikes. It is just a vindictive “screw you” to marginalized people. That is Trump’s playbook.
We have gone in circles tonight, listing everything wrong. Shall we call it? I am ready to adjourn for tonight.
Jacobsen: Just double-checking…
Rosner: Trump has no constraints at this point. He is desperate to distract from Epstein. He is a lame duck, so reelection is not an immediate concern. Yes, he cares about the midterms, but not enough to moderate his behaviour. Everything he does now is driven by cruelty and greed.
He has doubled his net worth since taking office—from around $1.5 billion to over $3 billion—through crypto and other questionable deals. And this ballroom project? That alone could net him another $20–30 million in shady contributions and payoffs.
Jacobsen: All good for tonight. I will talk to you tomorrow.
Rosner: Thank you very much.
Jacobsen: Thank you.
Rosner: Bye.
Jacobsen: Bye.
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