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.
- Newly disclosed body camera footage and text messages show federal immigration agents using racial slurs to describe Latinos while conducting sweeps and enforcement stops in the Los Angeles area.
- The evidence was submitted in a federal court motion by the ACLU and legal advocacy groups, seeking a preliminary injunction to halt an "ongoing campaign of suspicionless and discriminatory detentive stops" based on race or working-class status.
- Transcripts and forensically recovered messages reveal agents frequently using derogatory slurs, including "tonks" and "wet," while discussing targets at bus stops, street vendor locations, and day-labor sites.
- Officer depositions included in the filing acknowledge targeting individuals based on broad profiles, with one agent explicitly stating that the primary "suspicious appearance" they looked for was simply "older Hispanic male".
- A Department of Homeland Security spokesperson dismissed the court motion, stating that agents remain focused on public safety rather than "entertaining performative outrage".
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Footage shows immigration agents using slurs to describe Latinos targeted in raids
Bodycam footage and texts show immigration agents using slurs about Latinos targeted in Los Angeles raids. The ACLU uncovered the evidence in its lawsuit alleging racial profiling.
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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