Legal advocates and attorneys general argue practice poses accountability issues and contributes to a climate of fear
The head of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) said on Sunday that he will continue allowing the controversial practice of his officers wearing masks over their faces during their arrest raids.
As Donald Trump has ramped up his unprecedented effort to deport immigrants around the country, Ice officers have become notorious for wearing masks to approach and detain people, often with force. Legal advocates and attorneys general have argued that it poses accountability issues and contributes to a climate of fear.
On Sunday, Todd Lyons, the agency’s acting director, was asked on CBS Face the Nation about imposters exploiting the practice by posing as immigration officers. “That’s one of our biggest concerns. And I’ve said it publicly before, I’m not a proponent of the masks,” Lyons said.
They wear masks because they’re ashamed.
Because they don’t want to be hunted after this chapter of American history is slammed shut.
And it might take years or even decade++, but this chapter will eventually close.
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I was banned from Reddit for daring to suggest such a thing there. Even though Nazi hunters are a thing.
We will find them.
There will be a leak. It will be far too late to matter but it will come out one day. I hope they all lose their middle manager jobs at Staples and can’t afford their insulin.
Probably all in the list of pardoned people 🤔
I hope to a God I don’t even believe in that you’re right
Nothing will happen. Did anything happen to the police who killed unarmed kids, and innocents without any other reason other than the colour of their skin.
Absolutely not. Anonymity is power and lack of consequences. That’s what the masks are for.
I think they just don’t want to be held accountable for their actions. I’ve seen no evidence of any shame.
Which means they’re working triple overtime supressing it.
you overestimate them
they wouldn’t do this if they didn’t like it
Plenty of people are ashamed of their antisocial habits.
Every video I’ve watched where their masks are down and they’re speaking, they don’t look or sound like white Americans.
They look and sound like Federales.
Small sample size but just an observation.