Posted on 07/01/2025 4:05:05 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Following a surge in arrests by armed, masked federal immigration agents in unmarked cars, some California Democrats are backing a new bill in Congress that would bar officials from covering their faces while conducting raids.
The No Masks for ICE Act, introduced by Rep. Nydia Velázquez (D-New York) and co-sponsored by more than a dozen Democrats, would make it illegal for federal agents to cover their faces while conducting immigration enforcement unless the masks were required for their safety or health.
The bill would also require agents to clearly display their name and agency affiliation on their clothes during arrests and enforcement operations.
Rep. Laura Friedman (D-Burbank), who is co-sponsoring the bill, said Tuesday that the legislation would create the same level of accountability for federal agents as for uniformed police in California, who have been required by law for more than three decades to have their name or badge number visible.
“When agents are masked and anonymous, you cannot have accountability,” Friedman said. “That’s not how democracy works. That’s not how our country works.”
The bill would direct the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees Immigration and Customs Enforcement, to set up discipline procedures for officers who did not comply and report annually on those numbers to Congress.
A DHS spokeswoman did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The department has previously warned of a spike in threats and harassment against immigration agents.
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Just doing their jobs requires them to be safe.
DOA
That’s the truth!
“”” unless the masks were required for their safety or health.””””
Suddenly every ICE agent decided they didn’t want to spread COVD so they masked up to save lives.
The law should also make it illegal for the peaceful protesters to be masked up.
The act should be amended to state that anyone voting yes takes personal financial and legal responsibility for any harmed agent, including their families.
Preemptively, if possible.
OK, then make doxing federal agents a capital crime.
Wearing a mask to hide their identity is for their safety. What a waste of time these people are. That’s their concern these days.
No
But the good news is that antifa can continue to be masked!
Ban masks altogether and I’m
in .
“””Wearing a mask to hide their identity is for their safety.”””
I don’t think you would find many officers that would dare let their face be shown knowing what these crazies do.
NO PROTESTORS SHOULD HAVE MASKS EITHER!@!!
Propose a new law pulling security from all lawmakers.
This crap is going nowhere. It’s just another chance for this bullsh*t factory to promote Democrat scum.
Even if the Senate passed it, VETOED.
The thug Dems are already doxxing agents when they find information, to threaten their spouses and children at home as well as the agents. Someday, like the Asian and Latino NY Police officers on stakeout sitting in their parked squad car who were shot by ambushers and killed, there will be deaths.
December 20, 2014, Ismaaiyl Abdullah Brinsley shot and killed Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu – two on-duty New York City Police Department (NYPD) officers ...
Arrest everyone who votes for the bill. :)
Get a judge to rule that agents are only saving everyone from a resurgence of Covid. They believe Fauci.
A democrat thing
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