ICE agents used racial slurs to refer to Latinos, videos and texts appear to show
Plaintiffs say text messages and body camera footage show agents used slurs and race-based cues, undercutting the government’s claim of intelligence-led stops.
- On Monday, the American Civil Liberties Union and Public Counsel filed a 42-page motion seeking to bar an "ongoing campaign of suspicionless and discriminatory detentive stops" in the Central District of California.
- Attorneys allege ICE transitioned to a "policy of race-based profiling" last year, instructing field offices to arrest "collaterals," or nontargets, en masse while conducting "roving patrols."
- Discovery revealed agents used slurs like "tonk" and "wet" while discussing "soft counts" of "possibles," with evidence suggesting "paltry intelligence" was manufactured to justify operations agents were already intent on raiding.
- District Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong is weighing contempt charges for failing to image cell phones from 15 identified operations, despite more than 800 officers confirming they used personal phones during raids.
- Mayra Joachín, an attorney at the ACLU of Southern California, stated evidence demonstrates "race is the predominant characteristic driving Defendants' stops," urging the court to block agents from relying on perceived Latino ethnicity.
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DHS Calls Reports of ICE Agents' Slurs 'Performative Outrage' and Will Not Say if Policy Was Broken
Asked a simple question, whether its officers had broken the rules by using racial slurs, the Department of Homeland Security offered everything except an answer. New court filings in a California civil-rights case allege that federal immigration agents referred to Latinos with racial slurs during last year's mass enforcement sweeps, citing body-camera footage and text messages. Confronted with the evidence, DHS declined to say whether the langu…
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