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International Business Times UK
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Chelsie Napiza

DHS Calls Reports of ICE Agents' Slurs 'Performative Outrage' and Will Not Say if Policy Was Broken

Court filings in a California civil-rights lawsuit allege DHS immigration agents used anti-Latino racial slurs during 2025 federal enforcement sweeps. (Credit: US Immigration and Customs Enforcement)

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.

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