Mayor Adams defends the use of masks by federal immigration agents in New York City, stating it is a safety measure for agents. The acting director of ICE supports this practice, citing a significant increase in assaults on agents. Some members of the immigrant community oppose masks, suggesting they hinder accountability. There are proposals in New York to ban masks for federal officers. Homeland security spokesperson highlights the need for identification while acknowledging threats from dangerous gangs targeting ICE agents and their families.
If federal agents are wearing masks and face coverings, that may be part of their practices on keeping their agents safe.
If that's a tool that the men and women of ICE to keep themselves and their family safe, then I will allow it.
Officers are being doxed online and even their families and children are being targeted.
They clearly identify themselves as law enforcement while wearing masks to protect themselves from being targeted by highly sophisticated gangs.
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