Race Consideration in Policy and Justice

Race consideration in different contexts Best Columns: The U.S. The Supreme Court

and the Trump administration seem determined to “eliminate the use of race in government decision-making,”

said Ronald Brownstein—“with one conspicuous exception.” Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the court recently

ruled, may consider race or a Hispanic accent a “relevant factor” when deciding whom

to target. The decision flies in the face of previous court rulings that “severely limited,

and in some cases outright banned,” any consideration of race in university admissions.

Colleges aren’t allowed to consider race, but ICE is: It can now detain people

based on their skin color. Worse, many legal scholars fear that with this