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5:44Now PlayingU.S. Border Patrol agents are exposed after widespread emails and texts across all rankings reveal routine use of racist remarks and anti-immigrant slur. John Iadarola and Trae Crowder break it down on The Damage Report.
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Emails Show Border Patrol's Widespread Use Of AntiImmigrant Slur
"U.S. Border Patrol agents across ranks and regions routinely referred to unauthorized migrants using the derogatory slur “tonk,” according to emails and text messages disclosed to HuffPost under the Freedom of Information Act.
Higher-ups in Washington and within the Border Patrol itself have told agents that discriminatory and racist language undermines the agency’s mission — at times singling out the term “tonk” specifically and threatening disciplinary action for its use.
But its use remains surprisingly routine, even in government communications that in some cases bore email signatures of supervising agents, the documents show. HuffPost submitted the FOIA request in 2020, asking for agency communications that included the word. The agency began a partial release of the documents last week."
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