VETERAN: "This is why they can't wear masks. Because people like this exist... if you want to snatch people off the street

[IrishBubbaLiberal]

VETERAN: “This is why they can’t wear masks. Because people like this exist… if you want to snatch people off the streets, do it in uniform, and show your damn face.”

(@MarshaBlackburn’s Secret Police bill criminalizes transparency and threatens 5 years for naming an ICE agent)

VETERAN: “This is why they can’t wear masks. Because people like this exist… if you want to snatch people off the streets, do it in uniform, and show your damn face.”

(@MarshaBlackburn’s Secret Police bill criminalizes transparency and threatens 5 years for naming an ICE agent)

— The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) 2025-06-07T17:47:43.266Z

Exactly. Criminals posing as ICE can more easily kidnap kids (and adults) and commit other crimes. All police should have badges and show their faces while they are "on duty." IF you aren't ashamed of what you are doing, then take off the mask.

— rebel.resist💙 (@sam--2025.bsky.social) 2025-06-07T20:18:12.699Z

[Cha]

1. Kick TY!

[SheltieLover]

2. Kick

[I_UndergroundPanther]

3. KnR times a thousand

Chickenshit Fuckers show your face!!

[Uncle Joe]

4. Kicked and recommended

Thanks for the thread IrishBubbaLiberal

[Picaro]

5. The masks and lack of uniforms tell us something basic

Even the legitimate ones (that are actual ICE or police) know they are obeying illegal orders. They know that later if they are arrested that following orders is not a viable defense. I guarantee you that there are emails that talk to this. I would bet that there have been trainings that recommend wearing masks and not displaying their badges to protect from subsequent prosecution. They also know that what they’re doing is simply wrong and people are going to get really pissed off. Some might be tempted to track these people down. They know this because they’d get violent if this was done to them. Simple human logic.

We have laws, state and federal, that prohibit these behaviors.

These laws exist because of our sordid history of vigilante “justice” and extrajudicial rapes, murders, and assaults.

The Trump regime has ushered in a time of lawlessness where the supposed good guys are to be feared. Ultimately, these guys are going to pick on someone that’s armed and some of these idiots are going to get killed. When this happens the shooter is going to have a really good defense because they had no way of knowing who was attacking them. A masked person has always been viewed as an assailant—because in most instances they were.

It looks to me like a lot of these fuckers aren’t even real ICE or DHS. But it doesn’t really matter if they are. Without due process they are defacto illegitimate.

This piece brings the problems with how these supposed deportation actions are being carried out into even clearer focus.

Thanks for posting.

[Attilatheblond]

6. Masks, no badges visible equals KKK of today

[WhiskeyGrinder]

7. If they committed these actions without masks, would that make it ok?

[GiqueCee]

8. I don't believe...

... that the OP suggests that at all. They're wearing masks because their actions are totally illegal. This entire program was spawned in the fevered mind of Stephen Miller, who is a bonafide psychopath, which can be said of a horrifying number of Republicans. Take Marsha Blackburn, for instance. Or Empty Greene. Or John Kennedy. or Mike Lee. Or "Moses" Johnson. Or, Hell, ANY Republican. Those with even a vestigial remnant of conscience have left the Republican Party, or are at least packing a go-bag, knowing that there is no line these fuckers won't cross, steadfast in their belief that the grotesquely corrupt "Sinister Six" on the SCOTUS will have their backs no matter what crimes they commit. That's already been proven beyond any shadow of a doubt.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

10. yeah my point being is why we're focusing on the masks when the actions themselves are horrific

[allegorical oracle]

9. Don't recall ever seeing photos of German troops or brown shirts wearing

masks as they conducted their arrest roundups....

[JanMichael]

11. Hate to say it but they were better than our Nazis...

[GopherGal]

14. Ughhh.

Hate to agree, but that's the point we've reached in this country now.
ICE agents compare unfavorably to OG Nazis.

[dchill]

12. This is exactly what the MAGA government wants. To sow fear.

If they wear uniforms and show their faces, it makes them responsible for all they do. That won't work for them.

[oberle]

13. At one of these demonstrations

I wish somebody would pull one of their masks down. Then at least one of them can be identified.

[DiverDave]

15. 💯

Kick+rec

[Festivito]

16. Links

attempted rape and theft report
https://abc7ny.com/post/brooklyn-heights-attack-man-arrested-attempted-rape-allegedly-posing-ice-agent/15902769/


https://abc7ny.com/post/brooklyn-attempted-rape-woman-says-man-posed-ice-agent-before-attempting-sexually-assault-heights/15897592/

Caught
https://www.amny.com/new-york/brooklyn/brooklyn-rape-attempt-ice-agent-02132025/