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Arellano: The banality of evil in the Border Patrol's secret anti-immigrant slur
Border Patrol workers have used the slang term 'tonk,' mimicking the sound of being hit, to refer to undocumented immigrants for at least half a century. The term is described as a secret anti-immigrant slur.
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