(NEXSTAR) — During the first presidential debate of 2024, President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump sparred over their immigration and border security policies. Biden called out Trump for separating migrant families at the U.S.-Mexico border, while Trump argued that “we had the safest border in history” under his presidency. The Biden administration had … Read more
U.S. Border Patrol agents freely used the derogatory slur “tonk” to describe unauthorized migrants on government computers, at times while joking about killing or beating them, according to emails and text messages disclosed to HuffPost under the Freedom of Information Act. The documents, from 2017 to 2020, reveal yet another instance of the Border Patrol’s … Read more
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 — … Read more
