We keep hearing about masked agents coming and pulling people off the streets or out of their houses.
This needs to stop.
And it can be stopped, if we protest and resist. We have seen pushback work in many areas!
But we need to elevate this.
Some are demanding the masks come off, such as in Newark:
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NEW: Clashes now outside ICE’s Delaney Hall detention centre.
Masked agents inside are pushing protestors & Newark Police seemingly between them.
A masked agent appears to be saying “You wanna go, you wanna go?” to one of the protestors.
“Take your mask off!”, is shouted back.
(🎥 Freedom News)
— News Eye (@newseye.bsky.social) 2025-05-12T21:43:48.314Z
Yes, many of these people are being denied due process, but it’s worse than that.
Or, as Sandi Bachom says:
If they were doing anything honorable they would show their faces. The fact that they are not, means they know what they are doing is wrong.
It’s also possible for anyone to put on a mask and to engage in carjacking and other crimes.
Of course, some people have asked questions about this. This is from back in March Emma Tucker, CNN
As the Trump administration continues to expand its deportation actions, startling scenes have emerged in recent weeks of masked federal agents in plain clothes detaining international students on campus or near their homes, raising serious questions about those tactics and their authority to wear face coverings.
There is no federal policy dictating when officers can or should cover their faces during arrests, but historically they have almost always worn them only while performing undercover work to protect the integrity of ongoing investigations, law enforcement experts told CNN.
Practices have seemingly changed due to the concern agents will be targeted as a byproduct of the Trump administration’s policies, in a climate where the average person can use technology to expose an officer’s personal information, said Jerry Robinette, former Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Homeland Security special agent in charge, who currently serves as a consultant for law enforcement agencies. ✂️
The optics are striking because historically in the US, agents have almost always gone without face coverings when arresting some of the country’s most dangerous criminals – such as John Gotti, the head of the Gambino crime family, or the cartel boss El Chapo – unlike in countries like Mexico, Italy or those in the Eastern Bloc, according to Miller and John Sandweg, former acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement and former acting general counsel of the Department of Homeland Security.
The question has been raised, but not enough.
I don’t know if others are pushing back, but we need to elevate it. Please, demand our representatives and senators to raise an outcry. Local governments may be able to help, Get the media to report on it.
No more masked agents!
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