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

Agents accused in lawsuit of using anti-immigrant slurs and denigrating undocumented Mexicans

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.