ICE is currently functioning as Donald Trump's secret police, and Democrats need to explicitly say that this is what's happening.

I’d like to see a simple bill requiring ICE, Border Patrol, & any other officers involved in deportation or policing to be uniformed, with ID that is easily available for inspection by anyone who requests it, come to a vote. Let these authoritarians show everyone exactly who they are by opposing it.

Never stop denouncing the evils of the past and present. That said, the German Gestapo didn't go disappearing people whilst hiding their faces. If the ICE agents truly believe they're in the right, they should be bare faced proud of what they're doing. Else they're just cheap, cowardly, thugs.

It’s also a way to use “deputized” militia thugs to disappear people.

Conservatives.

Are they actual officers? Who are these people?! No identification shown… I think they’re just thugs that have been pulled into service.

Do their faces match their IDs? You'll have to take off your mask for me to check your ID and verify you're a law enforcement officer.

If what you are doing as an LEO is moral, ethical, and legal, masks are not needed.

Masks

And those photos on the lawn - nameless heads on spikes. Real, innocent people in the death camp.

What are a citizen’s rights to self defense when masked unidentified men try to kidnap you?

It feels like 1935 Germany. And just like then, the people of today are just going to let it happen.

Terror squads. Not simply un-American; this goes against everything we stand for. More parallels to the grievances against King George.

It's a Klan tactic.

Masked agents kidnapping people run the very real risk of catching a legitimate bullet. Not seeing them do this in open carry states, or is that just the news being selective?

I play Red Dead Redemption 2. Mask up says I'm a criminal, shoot me. I'm not declaring precedent, just saying it could get complicated.

Crowd source id'ing them.

It may be intended to incite people to leave by themselves without telling anyone about it.

ICE is acting illegally and anonymously for all the world to see.

If War Powers Act is being used to justify these actions then certainly a War Crimes trial is possible. Wearing of masks meant to threaten and intimidate also hide their identities.

Surround them. Stop the kidnappings.

Masked men with guns should be shot.

You need to do a story about how the right has embraced the “JACKBOOTED THUGS” they shrieked about for decades.

Shouldn't be legal. They should have to wear a uniform and a badge. I mean, any legit reason why not?

They should not be allowed to hide their faces. Cowards all of them.

Unmask yourselves if you are so proud of what you are doing. The masks say it all.

Not just the undocumented. Some of those guys won't show identification, badges, or warrants. How can we know what they're doing?

Anybody accosting me or mine wearing a mask and refusing to identify themselves is going to get more resistance than they think.

Effers

I think most of them are like the proud boys n such. The racist creeps who r doing it for fun.

Time to exercise my 2nd Amendment right.

That tells me that they do NOT want anyone to recognize them because they know that they are feeding to an illegal and immoral enforcement system. Not leading people to due process and a fair hearing. They don't want even their families to know what they are really doing. THEY ARE ASHAMED.

When dem politicians like @booker.senate.gov @duckworth.senate.gov @klobuchar.senate.gov Vote with maga they're enabling and normalizing this.

Ah! Antifa, BLM, looters wherever, ok with masks!!!

They are coming for the guns next

ICE are Gestapo. I would never have said that before 2025.

Yes + even if 75% of voters had picked Trump they couldn’t have given legitimacy to suspending laws and dispensing with law as such If govt prosecutors don’t come into court as one litigant among others we don’t have equal justice or law at all DOJ claim of sovereign injury today = masked feds

The slow-motion birth of a surveillance state with masked agents operating in unchecked authority. SUPER EXCITING STUFF RIGHT HERE. Can't wait to see how this blows up in every single civilian's face.

All people of color including us citizens

And to think, until recently these upstanding citizens would have been agitating to ban masks altogether…

It's such an obvious and intentional way to erode accountability.

They’re hoping one of them gets killed so they can really ramp up the oppression