Videos presented during the Perdomo v. Mullin case show that Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents used racial slurs to refer to Latinos they encountered during traffic stops.
According to the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California (ACLU SoCal), videos obtained directly from ICE and presented in court show federal immigration officers using terms such as "tonks" and "wet" to refer to people who appeared Latino and were perceived as low-income or working-class, in what advocates argue were stops largely based on racial profiling.
