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Rand Paul: ICE Agents Wearing Masks Is ‘Inappropriate’
Breitbart ^ | 4 Feb 2026 | Pam Key

Posted on 02/06/2026 11:57:24 PM PST by dennisw

Tuesday on MS NOW’s “The 11th Hour,” Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) said Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) should not be wearing masks during their operations in American cities.

Paul said, “I think the main thing is if you want trust to develop again, I’m not somebody who wants to abolish ICE. I want ICE to behave within the rules and enforce the law. But I want them to behave in a normal, rational law enforcement manner.”

Host Stephanie Ruhle said, “Do you think it’s OK for ICE to be wearing these masks?

Paul said, “I think that anonymity and wearing a mask leads to less responsible behavior. I’m not saying there might not be a value on the border where the cartels are running large and things are a little bit more murky, and mayors’ heads are being chopped off by the cartel. I have a little more sympathy there. The images where I’ve seen ICE agents in masks, in an elevator, in a courthouse in Chicago, I think are inappropriate. Look, the local police in Chicago, the bail of everybody else is unmasked. I don’t know why we would have one group of men apprehending.

The image I saw was arresting women and their children in an elevator in the courthouse in Chicago. I think one that reduces trust by the public but doesn’t seem appropriate. And I do think when you’re anonymous, like any time you’re anonymous, you tend to do things that you might not do if you were recognizable.”

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1 posted on 02/06/2026 11:57:24 PM PST by dennisw
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To: dennisw

More performance art from Rand. Personally, I think this is all part of an elaborate joke from Rand, that he is clowning us with the use of the word, “inappropriate”. That no guy ever uses.


2 posted on 02/07/2026 12:00:50 AM PST by dennisw (There is no limit to human stupidity / )
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By grandstanding, open borders rand paul’s own words, he’s working to prevent and make it more risky for ice to deport illegal aliens from this country.

Of course, this means that the leftist in government will eventually somehow allow them to all vote, which votes the republicans out of power, turning the country into what mamdani is already doing in new york...

So, why do the people of kentucky want the country to be overrun with freeloading illegal aliens and the government become socialist or communist?


3 posted on 02/07/2026 12:05:23 AM PST by backpacker_c
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What is inappropriate is the doxing of ICE Agents by Communist insurgents who are nothing but foreign funded terrorists. Write a law giving ten years in federal prison for doing that and they won’t need to wear masks Paulie girl.


4 posted on 02/07/2026 12:08:11 AM PST by Dogbert41 (“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God” -Matthew 5:9)
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Showing your face in public is inappropriate, Rand. Work on it.


5 posted on 02/07/2026 12:10:21 AM PST by thescourged1 (Rush, is it time to panic yet? )
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To: dennisw

So it’s ok that they’re identified and their families are terrorized. Most of the “protesters” are masked and that’s ok because of Covid and all. ICE should be unarmed as well I suppose. You Little punk ass SOB! He knows he’s wrong. How can he sleep at night?


6 posted on 02/07/2026 12:11:25 AM PST by albie
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To: dennisw

I’m curious how he felt about masks during the “Covid crises”


7 posted on 02/07/2026 12:13:04 AM PST by centermass_socrates (Visualize whirled peas.)
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To: backpacker_c

He was voted in during the wave of the tea party movement. As a Kentucky voter, I can hardly wait to vote his open border losertarian 🍑 the heck out of office.


8 posted on 02/07/2026 12:18:00 AM PST by MachIV
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To: dennisw

Do you recall when Rand Paul was this upset about ANTIFA cadres being similarly masked while they ran around rioting,
attacking law enforcement officers and others, looting businesses, destroying property and burning buildings?

Neither do I.


9 posted on 02/07/2026 12:18:07 AM PST by Iron Munro (Pamela Geller: Where Islam dominates democracy and non-muslims perish.)
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To: albie

So it’s ok that they’re identified and their families are terrorized. Most of the “protesters” are masked and that’s ok because of Covid and all. ICE should be unarmed as well I suppose. You Little punk ass SOB! He knows he’s wrong. How can he sleep at night?

“On amatress from mattress firm”. Same way the rest of the azzholes in DC sleep to get energy to screw the American Taxpayers and our LEO. IMO


10 posted on 02/07/2026 12:18:12 AM PST by Equine1952 (MM1SS SASOB)
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To: dennisw

Rand, licking the vomit of The Treason Media.


11 posted on 02/07/2026 12:18:32 AM PST by an amused spectator (principled conservatism is Lefty subterfuge)
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To: dennisw

Your haircut is inappropriate. Grow up.


12 posted on 02/07/2026 12:20:29 AM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all. )
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13 posted on 02/07/2026 12:20:37 AM PST by Iron Munro (Pamela Geller: Where Islam dominates democracy and non-muslims perish.)
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To: backpacker_c

Rand does not understand that most of these border jumper criminals come from Marxist countries. When the Marxist DemonKKKrats run for office, they will have these demons vote for them because Marxism is what they know and support. Rand has no clue that Libertarians do not have what it takes to fight the Communists.

The masks on the ICE agents protect their identity from the anti-ICE doxers who will threaten their wives and children. Masks will also protect them from those criminal Marxist border jumpers who have no second thought about raping a little girl and molesting a little boy.


14 posted on 02/07/2026 12:35:16 AM PST by jonrick46 (Leftniks chase illusions of motherships at the end of the pier.)
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To: dennisw

Oh fk you Rand, you never seem to understand the simplest things.


15 posted on 02/07/2026 12:41:16 AM PST by Bullish (My tagline ran off with another man, but it's okay... I wasn't married to it.)
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To: dennisw

If Rand wants to talk about what is inappropriate then that haircut and curly permanent was a bad choice.


16 posted on 02/07/2026 1:21:06 AM PST by CodeToad
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To: dennisw

rand Paul is inappropriate!


17 posted on 02/07/2026 1:25:35 AM PST by ronnie raygun
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To: dennisw

The ICE agents didn’t start wearing masks. They started using the masks when the violent left started doxing, harassing, and threatening them and their families.

The violent mobs wear masks, Rand. Is that not inappropriate?

Is it inappropriate, Rand, for violent seditionists to obstruct and attack law enforcement and call their actions peaceful protesting?

Is it inappropriate Rand to employ illegals and pay them under the table Rand? Is it inappropriate to hand out benefits and freebies to people while denying help to our own, Rand? Is it inappropriate to allow those who do not qualify to be behind the wheels of big rigs on American roads licenses to ace out American truckers and endanger or kill Americans going to work and traveling each day, Rand?

I never hear any compassion or outrage for what has been done to Americans. I just hear feeble talk and virtue signaling holier than thou criticism from Rand Paul.

The left only loves you Rand because you are weak and give them what they want. They need you now. They will ignore and squash you when you are no longer needed.


18 posted on 02/07/2026 1:52:11 AM PST by dforest
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To: dennisw
Rand needs to simmer down and "fluff" something up.

19 posted on 02/07/2026 2:20:24 AM PST by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and his mercy endures forever. — Psalm 106)
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To: backpacker_c
So, why do the people of kentucky want the country to be overrun with freeloading illegal aliens and the government become socialist or communist?

Pretty broad paintbrush you got there, Bucky.

20 posted on 02/07/2026 2:33:43 AM PST by TangoLimaSierra (⭐⭐To the Left, the Truth is Right Wing Violence⭐⭐)
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