Throughout her 11-year tenure at the American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico, Maria Martinez Sanchez has never felt so personally implicated in a court ruling as she was by the one delivered Monday by the U.S. Supreme Court.

“I am a brown woman, and I am sitting here wondering — do I need to keep proof of my citizenship with me on at all times?” said Martinez Sanchez, the chapter’s legal director and a New Mexican whose family roots in Mora date back before statehood. “Because that’s apparently where we are at in this country after the Supreme Court decision.”

President Donald Trump’s national immigration crackdown got a boost Monday when the Supreme Court lifted a federal judge’s order prohibiting federal agents in Los Angeles from stopping people and asking them about their immigr

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