White House border czar Tom Homan said that while he doesn’t like that federal immigration enforcement officers agents wear masks, he believes they need to wear masks to protect themselves against threats and violence.
“I don’t like the masks either,” Homan said in an interview with Ed O’Keefe on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan” on Sunday.
Homan said assaults against Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers have increased by 1,500% while threats against them have increased by 8,000%. The Department of Homeland Security said in a Jan. 26 news release that assaults against ICE officers had increased by more than 1,300%. Neither Homan nor the release gave a timeframe for that surge, nor did they give a source for the assault and threat claims.
They wouldn’t need to protect themselves more than any other cop if they weren’t doing scumbag stuff. I haven’t seen the cops in my city wear masks except when the temperature was below 10F and when they have been transporting or guarding prisoners in the hospital I work at and it was necessary for infection control.
Protect them from what? What has happened to them in the past? There is no evidence to support what they are saying
And why do they have to protect themselves? Is it because they are knowingly throwing the legal rights and process out the window and committing vigilante, racist, perverse genocidal philosophies out that are against the law?
If you have to wear a mask to hide from the public to “enforce laws”, you are always a bad actor. Not that they care.
In over 20 years of the existence of ICE they’ve only “needed” them since Trump was last sworn in. Coincidence?
Have they tried not being fascists?
I’m pretty sure they haven’t actually tried this one simple trick. The thing is the tax paying citizens AND immigrants both love this one simple trick.
If they didn’t do anything wrong, they have nothing to hide, do they?
Protect themselves from everyone knowing who they are being held accountable for their explicitly illegal and immoral actions.
Go fall face first on an upright pitchfork Homan.
Can we get Hbomberguy punch through a wall and ask: “Protect them from what Tom? PROTECT THEM FROM WHAT?”
Won’t someone think of the secret police?
Yo Tom Homan, you got my $50,000 in cash on you? That my FBI agents gave you in a sting operation that you totally went for because you’re corrupt?
Those who surveil you and attack your neighbors hide their faces to protect their safety
Just use the payrolls and direct deposit forms when the trials begin. Shit at this point, it will be integrated with an AI that will just answer the question in a nice little Excel with names, locations accounts…
Fuck off.
