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To: KittenClaws
Spent better part of 4 years with dozens of BP and assorted other LE personnel, supposedly originated with BP not surprisingly since they have daily contact. Not all illegals submit when apprehended.

From the article: "I was specifically told by several BP agents that it is the sound of a flashlight hitting a head," Heyman said in a separate email. "I was never told either of those acromyms (or any others). I suspect that those are after-the-fact rationalizations of a disturbing word, but I cannot prove that (I do not directly have evidence). What I do have evidence of is that is was described to me by agents as the sound of a flashlght blow to the head."

This is it, but with a 'K' unless the AZ sector guys use alt spelling.

547 posted on 11/18/2018 2:39:00 PM PST by xone
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To: xone
From the article:

Josiah Heyman, director of the Center for Inter-American Border Studies at the University of El Paso, thinks the latter definition is more accurate based on what he said Border Patrol officers have told him in the past.

"It comes supposedly from the sound of a person´s head being hit by a flashlight," Heyman wrote in an email. "Their explanation. It is derogatory. Implies people against whom one exercises violent force. That is my interpretation but pretty clear."

Heyman doesn't believe the term "tonc" is an acronym that stands for something else.

555 posted on 11/18/2018 2:53:57 PM PST by KittenClaws ("They've got Daryl's Dad's car! .....Red Dawn)
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To: xone
Ha. I know that sound.

Papi me gusto.

!Ai mi cabeza!

Bagster


558 posted on 11/18/2018 2:58:42 PM PST by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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