ICE agents used racial slurs during Los Angeles crackdown, court files show

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ICE agents deployed last summer to the Los Angeles area referred to the subjects of their immigration operations with racial slurs, according to newly released court documents. On 4 July 2025, an unidentified agent wrote in a text chain, “btw tonks everywhere selling food for the 4th festivities in long beach right now,” invoking an anti-immigrant slur, which the US Border Patrol has previously warned against. In a different string of messages sent on 2 July 2025, an agent wrote, “Some of these people are stupid. Why would you post on social media that you’re wet,” using the abbreviated version of a slur long used to denigrate undocumented Mexicans who…

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