Democrats Want To Ban Masked ICE Agents

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Source: Huff Post

Jun 26, 2025, 03:30 PM EDT | Updated 7 hours ago


Since Donald Trump took office for a second time, masked federal agents are wreaking havoc and making arrests of immigrants and even some U.S. citizens. Two lawmakers in Congress say they have a plan to stop the “secret” policing that has become a feature of this administration.

Reps. Dan Goldman and Adriano Espaillat, both Democrats of New York, introduced the “No Secret Police Act of 2025” on Thursday. If passed, the legislation would forbid law enforcement officers and agents for the Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement from hiding their faces or concealing their identity when making arrests.

Agents would also be required to display or wear certain insignia, and provide identification when they are making arrests or attempting to detain someone. Homemade, non-tactical masks are also banned under the proposed legislation.

“Across the country, plain-clothed federal agents in homemade face coverings are lying in wait outside immigration courts to snatch law-abiding, non-violent immigrants going through our legal system the right way. This isn’t about protecting law enforcement, it’s about terrorizing immigrant communities,” Goldman said. “The United States is not a dictatorship, and I’m proud to introduce this commonsense legislation ensuring that our federal government’s laws are enforced by identifiable human beings, not anonymous, secret agents of the state.”

Read more: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/democrats-want-to-ban-masked-ice-agents_n_685d9603e4b0bb5044ff94a5

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Link to draft LEGISLATION (PDF) - https://big.assets.huffingtonpost.com/athena/files/2025/06/26/685d73a2e4b0dc2d3f534adb.pdf

[Dave Bowman]

1. "The United States is not a dictatorship"

It's becoming one and the process is getting faster each day.

[C Moon]

2. You know those masked bastards given police vests are nothing more than racist freaks.

This is so effed up.
I look forward to the time the truth comes out, and these bastards are facing justice.

[bdamomma]

4. Take off masks

They are all pardoned Jan 6th Insurrectionists. many of have said it. 1,600 of them and probably more now.

[democrank]

3. We need to be protected from these goons.

It’s asking a bit much that we simply willingly jump in the van with these masked people who won’t say who they are, who sent them, why we’re being detained, where we’re being taken.

If they’re so proud of the “lawful” way they’re grabbing people off the streets and sending them to places unknown….take the damn masks and hoods off, wear a giant name plate and an even more giant badge showing what agency they represent.

Perhaps Congress could even go so far as to to direct them not to leave children behind on the side of the road and not shackle the ankles of women giving birth while in custody.
Maybe Congress could even direct that the person in custody be allowed a phone call.

It’s no secret that CRUELTY is the guiding principle of Trump’s policies, but last I looked we weren’t North Korea. Not quite.

[kiri]

9. Unidentified thug becomes an LEO

It's worse. People resist and fight back against obvious thugs. Then they are charged with "resisting arrest". assaulting an officer" ... who was not identified as such. It is Kafka.....

[tanyev]

5. Anyone masked and refusing to provide ID should always be referred to

as someone CLAIMING to be a federal agent.

[bronxiteforever]

6. In a democracy or representative republic

or in a civilized culture, mask wearing by law enforcement agents should be illegal full stop.

[usonian]

7. Impersonating an officer. Illegal today, IMO

Book 'em Dano.

[Magoo48]

8. They are not ICE agents, which is bad enough, they are masked, criminal bounty hunters kidnapping citizens.

[Martin68]

10. Masked law enforcement should be prohibited except in cases dealing with foreign terrorists.

[electric_blue68]

11. Rep Adriano is my rep, so since I just saw this I called his DC office to think him

So TY, BRDS.

[Karasu]

12. It's absurd that we now live in a country where this is happening and the government is bending over backwards to excuse

it.