Democrats want to ban masked ice agents

Since Donald Trump assumed the position for the second time, the masked federal agents are wreaked havoc and making immigrants arrests and even some US citizens. Two legislators in Congress say they have a plan to stop “secret” surveillance that has become a characteristic of this administration.

The representatives Dan Goldman and Adriano Espaillat, both Democrats in New York, presented the “No 2025 secret police law“On Thursday. If approved, the legislation would prohibit agents and agents from the Department of National Security and Immigration and Customs Control by hiding their faces or hiding their identity when making arrests. Agents should also show or use certain badges, and provide identification when they are making arrests or trying to stop someone.

Homemade non -tactic masks are also prohibited under the proposed legislation.

“Throughout the country, simple federal agents on homemade roofs are next to the immigration courts to snatch non -violent immigrants from the law that cross our legal system in the right way. It is not about protecting the police, it is about terrorizing immigrant communities,” Goldman said. “The United States is not a dictatorship, and I am proud to present this common sense legislation that guarantees that the laws of our federal government are applied by identifiable human beings, not anonymous secret agents of the State.”

Last week, the Comptroller of New York City and candidate for mayor Brad Lander was arrested by masked men within a Federal Immigration Court in downtown Manhattan, where raids have been happening with some frequency. Lander said he was there to Observe immigration procedures and escort the people of the building in an attempt to ensure that no one was arrested without a court order. Although he had done this in the past, this time, Lander was arrested approximately by multiple masked agents. Only a man wore a vest that seemed to be part of the ICE Execution and Extization Operations Division. Although the National Security Department accused Lander of assaulting an officer and stopped him for hoursno charges were presented.

Some 3 Democratic legislators have already submitted their support behind the bill, according to a Goldman statement.

The bill of the House of Representatives occurs after other bills that leave facial coverage have been introduced by others, as one of the state legislators in California.

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Immigration raids have continued to increase there in recent weeks as in New York. Masked federal agents have been seen without a clear identification in the communities of California, and trapped by the Chamber, stopping people in parks, courts, apartment buildings, during traffic stops and their workplaces. When California’s state senator, Sasha Renee Pérez (D), presented the “Non -Vigilant Law” in Pasadena on Monday, journalists told journalists during a press conference that people simply should not be asked to assume that security agents or ice are arrests.

“The truth is that unless these people provide adequate identification, we don’t know,” he said.

It is likely that Goldman and Espaillat’s bill will face winds against serious in the Chamber controlled by Republicans. Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) Bleached at the idea Ice agents are forced to identify when they appeared in News earlier this month. By increasing concerns about the assault and Doxxx of ice agents, Johnson compared the prohibitions of the covers for the law agents so that people were asked to take when the Coronavirus began to break with the United States.

“Of the people who forced the burden of masks for years in the United States, it is absurd. They need to go back from ice and respect our agents and stop protesting against them,” Johnson said on June 9.

Johnson did not immediately return a comment request on Thursday.

The Attorney General Pam Bondi reiterated the stretch of the fingers on Wednesday during a budget hearing of the Department of Justice in the Senate. When asked if he was aware that the masked agents were arrested and did not identify, Bondi saying It was “the first time the problem has come to me” before stating that the federal agents were Doxxed and threatened.

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Storage of masks by agents, according to an analysis of CNNseemed seriously around March when men with simple clothes without badges, the visible badge or identification began to take energetic measures against the protests of Israel that developed in the university campuses.

“The Hodgepodge of the federal agencies that Trump is executing his war against immigrants is terrorizing immigrants,” Natalia Aristizabal, deputy director of Make The Road New York, said on Thursday in a statement on Thursday. “They do not take into account the rights of people and take the people of their work, homes and streets, all masked and unidentified. This must stop. Ice must respond to people and must identify themselves and the agencies for which they work.”

A White House spokesman said, without providing any evidence, that there is a “increase of 500%” in the assaults on ICE officers due to the “deranged and dangerous rhetoric of the Democrats.”

Instead of data on his statements, the spokesman provided a link to the social networks account of a transgender person who allegedly discussed attacking ICE agents.

“Instead of spending their time demonizing even more the heroic ice officers, Democratic politicians should mark the rhetoric again and tell their supporters to stop attacking the police,” said Thursday’s spokesman.

According to the New York city lawyers association, the concealment of agents’ faces is a public security problem that must be addressed immediately. On a long June 20 statement, The legal organization emphasized that the current Federal Code requires that immigration officers identify “as soon as it is practical and sure to do it”, when making an arrest, as well as typical police officers they are routinely required when they make arrests.

Currently, there is no federal policy that regulates how or when agents must cover their face. It is usually reserved for undercover agents. However, the policy of the National Security Department affirms that after arrests without a court order, ICE officers must present a complete writing that documes the circumstances of the arrest, including specific details on how, at the time of arrest, the agent identified himself as an immigration officer. (In May, Sens. Tim Kaine (D-V.) And Mark Warner (D-VA). remembered Officials of the National Security Department on this policy as arrests masked in Virginia were developed).

Since 2020, the International Police Chiefs Association warned That they face the police only raise tensions, endanger the agents of the law and make people “increase their defensive reactions.”

The masking and concealment of the law agents generates confusion for the public and opens the door to the bad actors who wish to take advantage of anonymity. Supplantation is also a serious concern: two state legislators of Minnesota and their spouses were shot in their homes Last week by a man who passes a police officer.

“If the law is defending, it should not be anonymous, and our bill is aimed at safeguarding tyranny while defending the values ​​of our nation,” said Espaillat representative in a statement on Thursday.