A federal judge on Aug. 18 ruled that a 92-year-old law that blocks illegal immigrants who have been deported from reentering the United States violates the U.S. Constitution because it’s “racially discriminatory.” U.S. District Judge Miranda Du, an Obama appointee, foundĀ in favor of illegal immigrant Gustavo Carillo-Lopez, a Mexican native who was charged with reentering the country after being deported twice. Du said Carillo-Lopez established that Section 1326 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), which bars reentry to deported immigrants, “was enacted with a discriminatory purpose and that the law has a disparate impact on Latinx persons.” Latinx is a progressive term that refers to Hispanics. Du also said the government failed to show that the section “would have been enacted absent racial animus.” As proof, the judge cited Border Patrol statistics that show that the majority of illegal immigrants apprehended at the southern border were of Mexican descent …