Left Coins ‘Kavanaugh Stops’ in ICE Fight

The left has coined a new term to allude to immigration officers’ detention of US citizens and lawful residents: “Kavanaugh Stops.”

It refers to conservative US Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who wrote in a Los Angeles-based case last month that encounters with immigration agents for legal residents are “typically brief” and affected individuals “promptly go free.” That assessment conflicts with accounts, documented in lawsuits and press reports, of sometimes allegedly violent sweeps where legal residents may be held for hours or days.

The high court in early September temporarily allowed immigration agents to continue targeting people in Los ...