A Border Patrol agent in Arizona, who faces federal charges for allegedly hitting an undocumented immigrant with his truck, routinely used profanities and racist slurs to describe immigrants he apprehended at the border, according to federal court documents reported Sunday by the Arizona Daily Star. According to the Arizona Daily Star, Bowen’s other text messages cited in the court filings include exchanges in which he jokes about violence toward migrants apprehended for illegally crossing the border. But others say that it’s a slur mimicking the sound of an apprehended migrant’s head being hit by a flashlight. Officials for the Border Patrol did not immediately respond to a request for comment from HuffPost. Read the full report from the Arizona Daily Star here.

Source: Huffington Post May 20, 2019 14:47 UTC