Allen Amos, a visiting judge handling cases under Gov. Greg Abbott’s border crackdown, allegedly used the term in a recent conversation with a defense attorney. GregAbbott Texas Border Immigration CivilRights
on trespassing charges has been accused of using a racist slur against Latino defendants.
A defense attorney told the State Commission on Judicial Conduct last week that Judge Allen Amos told her the trespassing defendants weren’t “your regular wetbacks,” according to a copy of the complaint obtained by the Texas Tribune. “They have phones and clothes and all kinds of other things,” Amos reportedly said in July to defense attorney Emily Miller, whose complaint was first reported byMiller is asking the commission to consider whether Amos’ alleged comment violates the Texas Judicial Code of Conduct. On Monday, Amos told the Tribune he would not comment on the complaint but would “have to wait for the judicial ethics people.
It’s unknown if he will continue serving as a visiting judge for migrant trespassing cases in the meantime. Aside from being racist, Miller told the commission she interpreted Amos’ comment to mean he believed the migrant defendants weren’t poor, potentially influencing“I have had several indigent clients of Guatemalan, Honduran, and Mexican descent whose bonds have recently been revoked by Judge Amos, and his presumed bias against my clients by calling them ‘wetbacks’ and mentioning their supposed affluence leads me to question whether he made an unbiased decision in their hearings,” she wrote in...
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