Nehmen Sie die Maske aus, Eis | Die Bundesregierung sollte das Tragen von Masken durch Eisagenten verbieten und verlangen, dass sie sich richtig identifizieren

„The federal government should“ lol

Some of the key portions of this opinion:

>But if immigration enforcement is more aggressive and visible than in the past, it is also more anonymous: ICE allows its agents to conduct operations in plain clothes and to cover their faces. Social media is flooded with images of masked men in streetclothes forcing people into unmarked cars.
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>This approach looks scary. It is scary. And it’s a grave mistake. In keeping with the values of the local police, the federal government should prohibit the wearing of masks by its officers and require them to properly identify themselves. These are the minimal requirements of policing a free state—regardless of how you feel about the administration’s stance on immigration. You can support ambitious deportation targets without sanctioning anonymous policing.
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>The main reason federal agents give for wearing masks is their fear of doxxing: the practice of sharing a person’s identity and contact information with the malicious intent of targeting them for harassment, threats, and possibly violence. Federal agents and their families deserve privacy and safety, but the government already has a means of protecting them: It can enforce the laws against harassment and threats, online or in person. Or Congress could pass an existing bill that explicitly makes doxxing federal law-enforcement agents illegal.
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>At any rate, everyone in government today is vulnerable to doxxing, including countless public servants who have no option to hide their identity as they work. Should a pool of judges issue anonymous verdicts? Should legislators pass bills by secret ballot? The answers are obvious. Wearing a badge is thought to require, and should require, more bravery than serving on a state assembly. Our police should be the (literal) face of the nation’s courage, unafraid to show the public who they are.
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>Perhaps most important, wearing masks could expose federal agents, local police, and the public to physical dangers that make the risks of doxxing seem minor in comparison. Armed, masked men appear sinister, even predatory. Beyond obscuring the facial expressions we use for cues about whether a person is a threat, masks are a marker of criminals looking to intimidate their prey while avoiding identification. This is why the ski mask is a cultural trope of the armed robber or terrorist. It is also why masked protesters undermine their own causes; the masks arouse deep suspicion, as bystanders may assume the protesters are just waiting for an opportune moment to break the law.
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>Many people on the left, perennially skeptical of how our nation is policed, think masking by federal agents is wrong. But so does the right-libertarian CATO Institute, which recently published an argument critical of mask wearing. It asked, “At what point will we as a nation find ourselves with a secret police?” A former FBI agent and a former Department of Homeland Security attorney have also spoken up against masking.
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>The driving principle here is obvious: In a free society, people should know who is policing them. To codify this sentiment in the law, New York legislators have proposed a ban on mask wearing by ICE agents, and California legislators have put forward a bill that would ban federal, state, and local police from wearing masks when interacting with the public. (The California bill exempts members of SWAT teams conducting tactical operations if a mask could reduce exposure to heat, fire, chemicals, and contaminants.) The legislation addresses a crucial issue, but it exemplifies the overkill of our times: We shouldn’t need a law to ensure a basic feature of transparent policing. Federal agencies should adopt this policy as a matter of course.
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>Descending on a person in public, laying hands on them, and taking them to a distant prison is a naked expression of state power. For it to be tolerated in a democracy committed to an inalienable right to liberty, it must be just that: naked. It cannot be done by shadowy, masked agents.

These are some important issues that the public and public representatives need to consider. By having law enforcement act in such a shadowy way, a democracy very quickly becomes a police state. This should be an uncontroversial position for all who believe in democracy, left or right.

We shouldn’t be protecting neo nazis America.

If you’re afraid of being identified doing your job, maybe you should be looking for other work.

The way ice is funded, there won’t be anyone able to tell them what to do by 2028. If Republicans decide they don’t like the results of the election they won’t just have random maga freaks to call in for their next coup.

When they’re unmasked, we’re going to learn they’re all Proud Boys and Oath Keepers and white supremacist militia members who’ve been standing back and standing by until now…

I’m pretty sure that we have lots of precedent law requiring federal agents to identify themselves. We need to enforce them via civil torts…whenever we can.

Didn’t want to wear masks during a pandemic, but now ICE agents are cosplaying Antifa. Fascism’s funny like that.

The Cato institute is right. ICE is now Trump’s secret police.

Their actions also directly led America to this point.

They’ll fight this so hard. It’s going to come out that the Trump administration deputized white supremacist groups and J6 convicts who were pardoned. I don’t know if that’ll be the final star or not, but it’s going to piss a lot of people off.

The people who are taking this job also fear retribution. That’s why they’re wearing the masks, so they can’t be identified by their communities.

Why? Then you would find out they are just regular Nazis kidnapping people.

5 years ago these same folks didn’t wanna wear a mask

ICE is America’s gestapo. You can’t change my mind

If they took off the masks it would be too easily to spot all the various scum they employ – racists, militia members, criminals et al. The party of „law and order“ (what a crock) doesn’t want you to see how many criminals they employ to enforce their demands.

They should be made to wear uniform, have proper identification, and must never wear face coverings. I don’t get how this is so controversial.

Of course they should. And that’s exactly why they won’t.