Mike German, an ex-FBI agent, said immigration agents hiding their identities ‘highlights the illegitimacy of actions’
Some wear balaclavas. Some wear neck gators, sunglasses and hats. Some wear masks and casual clothes.
Across the country, armed federal immigration officers have increasingly hidden their identities while carrying out immigration raids, arresting protesters and roughing up prominent Democratic critics.
It’s a trend that has sparked alarm among civil rights and law enforcement experts alike.
Mike German, a former FBI agent, said officers’ widespread use of masks was unprecedented in US law enforcement and a sign of a rapidly eroding democracy. “Masking symbolizes the drift of law enforcement away from democratic controls,” he said.
If the shit you are doing is so narfarious that you are worried people will find out you’re doing it then you probably shouldn’t be doing that shit.
It’s not about people seeing them. They weren’t masking up until people started going after their families. They weren’t wearing masks before the doxings. Stop the doxing and the masks go away again.
The risk to their families wouldn’t be a problem if they werent doing some nefarious arguably illegal shit.