{"id":5063418,"date":"2025-09-12T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/calatinonews.com\/?p=5063418"},"modified":"2025-09-12T22:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T15:00:00","slug":"cuando-el-idioma-se-convierte-en-blanco-la-democracia-pierde-su-voz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/latinonewsnetwork.com\/caln\/2025\/09\/12\/cuando-el-idioma-se-convierte-en-blanco-la-democracia-pierde-su-voz\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuando El Idioma Se Convierte En Blanco, La Democracia Pierde Su Voz"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>On Monday, the Supreme Court issued a 6\u20133 decision from its \u201cshadow docket\u201d that reversed a lower-court injunction and gave federal immigration agents in Los Angeles the green light to resume stops based on four deeply troubling criteria:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Apparent race or ethnicity<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Speaking Spanish or accented English<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Presence in a particular location<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Type of work<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong>The case, Noem v. Vasquez Perdomo, is still working its way through the courts. But the message from this emergency ruling is unmistakable: the constitutional protections that once shielded immigrant communities from racial profiling are now conditional\u2014and increasingly fragile.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Es incorrecto\u2014moral, legal y c\u00edvicamente\u2014que ICE apunte a personas simplemente por hablar un idioma distinto al ingl\u00e9s. Sin embargo, eso es exactamente lo que permite la reciente&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/the-logoff-newsletter-trump\/460712\/supreme-court-ice-immigration-race-ethnicity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">decisi\u00f3n&nbsp;<\/a>del Tribunal Supremo en el caso&nbsp;<em>Noem v. Perdomo<\/em>. Entre los cuatro factores que los agentes pueden usar para justificar detenciones migratorias en Los \u00c1ngeles se encuentra hablar espa\u00f1ol o ingl\u00e9s con acento\u2014un precedente alarmante en un pa\u00eds donde el&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.census.gov\/library\/stories\/2022\/12\/languages-we-speak-in-united-states.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">espa\u00f1ol es el segundo idioma m\u00e1s hablado<\/a>, utilizado por m\u00e1s de 43% de los inmigrantes y casi 68 millones de personas en todo el pa\u00eds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Seamos claros: esto no tiene que ver con la seguridad p\u00fablica. Se trata de convertir el idioma en una herramienta de perfilamiento racial, origen y estatus migratorio percibido. Solo en el condado de Los \u00c1ngeles, m\u00e1s de 3.4 millones de residentes&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/politics\/spanish-speakers-in-la-can-now-be-profiled-by-ice-all-35-million-of-them\/ar-AA1MbUKl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">hablan espa\u00f1ol<\/a>. No es una poblaci\u00f3n marginal\u2014es parte esencial del tejido c\u00edvico y cultural de la regi\u00f3n. Tratar el espa\u00f1ol como sospechoso es criminalizar la identidad, la herencia y el sentido de pertenencia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Como hijo de inmigrantes peruanos, crec\u00ed navegando entre dos mundos\u2014traduciendo para mis padres, adapt\u00e1ndome en las aulas, y aprendiendo que el idioma pod\u00eda ser tanto un puente como una barrera. Hoy, al criar a mis hijos junto a mi esposa Adriana, ciudadana naturalizada nacida en Colombia, les ense\u00f1amos a abrazar ambos idiomas. Pero \u00bfc\u00f3mo explicarles que hablar espa\u00f1ol en p\u00fablico podr\u00eda convertirlos en blanco de detenci\u00f3n?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">La&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/09\/08\/supreme-court-ice-raids-ruling-00550551\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ofensiva policial&nbsp;<\/a>de la administraci\u00f3n Trump comenz\u00f3 en junio de 2025, con agentes del ICE realizando patrullajes itinerantes por el sur de California. R\u00e1pidamente surgieron demandas, citando m\u00e1s de 2300 detenciones \u2014incluyendo ciudadanos estadounidenses y residentes legales\u2014 en lugares como estacionamientos de Home Depot, paradas de autob\u00fas y obras de construcci\u00f3n. La jueza Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong emiti\u00f3 una orden de restricci\u00f3n temporal en julio, prohibiendo al ICE usar la raza, el idioma, el tipo de trabajo o la ubicaci\u00f3n como \u00fanicos factores para las detenciones. El Noveno Circuito la ratific\u00f3. Pero la orden sin firmar de la Corte Suprema ahora ha levantado esas protecciones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">La jueza Sotomayor, acompa\u00f1ada por los jueces Kagan y Jackson,&nbsp;calific\u00f3 la decisi\u00f3n&nbsp;de \u201cinadmisiblemente irreconciliable con las garant\u00edas constitucionales de nuestra naci\u00f3n\u201d. Tiene raz\u00f3n. Este fallo no solo erosiona la Cuarta Enmienda, sino que tambi\u00e9n codifica la sospecha basada en la identidad. Les dice a millones de latinos, inmigrantes y trabajadores: su idioma, su trabajo, su color de piel y su ubicaci\u00f3n son suficientes para convertirlos en blanco.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">El caso podr\u00eda regresar al Tribunal Supremo para una revisi\u00f3n completa. Pero el da\u00f1o ya est\u00e1 hecho. Y si periodistas, defensores y l\u00edderes c\u00edvicos no se mantienen firmes, el precedente se expandir\u00e1\u2014primero por California, luego por todo el pa\u00eds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Esta decisi\u00f3n no solo debilita las protecciones constitucionales\u2014env\u00eda un mensaje de que la diversidad ling\u00fc\u00edstica es una amenaza, no una fortaleza. Socava los ideales de una democracia pluralista. Les dice a millones de estadounidenses que sus voces\u2014literalmente\u2014no son bienvenidas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Para familias como la m\u00eda, esto no es solo un cambio legal\u2014es una ruptura c\u00edvica. Socava la confianza en las autoridades, desestabiliza comunidades y env\u00eda al pa\u00eds el mensaje de que los derechos constitucionales son negociables. Que el perfilamiento es pol\u00edtica p\u00fablica. Que la justicia es selectiva.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Estamos ense\u00f1ando a nuestros hijos a sentirse orgullosos de su herencia, a hablar ambos idiomas, a conocer sus derechos. Pero tambi\u00e9n les estamos ense\u00f1ando c\u00f3mo mantenerse seguros en un pa\u00eds que cada vez m\u00e1s percibe su identidad como una amenaza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Debemos rechazar la idea de que el ingl\u00e9s es el \u00fanico idioma leg\u00edtimo. Nuestra democracia es multiling\u00fce. Nuestras comunidades son multiling\u00fces. Y nuestras leyes deben reflejar esa realidad\u2014no castigarla.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00bfQu\u00e9 tipo de pa\u00eds somos cuando la sospecha se basa no en acciones, sino en rostros?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To read the article in English, click&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1eXwacw4JbNv9Gpr8Cf36n8xDhxobGVgos4tpXVahGw4\/edit?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">HERE.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Es incorrecto\u2014moral, legal y c\u00edvicamente\u2014que ICE apunte a personas simplemente por hablar un idioma distinto al ingl\u00e9s. Sin embargo, eso es exactamente lo que permite la reciente\u00a0decisi\u00f3n\u00a0del Tribunal Supremo en el caso\u00a0Noem v. 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