📢 Masks Don’t Protect the Public. They Protect Abuse.

Authoritarian tactics don’t keep communities safe. Explore how masked enforcement and disappearances threaten civil liberties and democracy.

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Why is ICE hiding? Because fear—not justice—is guiding these actions. Fear of public backlash. Fear of being recognized. Fear of consequences.

Authoritarianism rarely announces itself. It seeps in quietly—wrapped in “law and order,” justified by fear, protected by silence. Today, it shows up as masked ICE agents, unmarked vehicles, and neighbors who vanish without explanation.

This isn’t about safety. It isn’t about justice.
It’s about control—and fear as a weapon.

Masks Don’t Protect the Public. They Protect Abuse.

ICE says masks protect agents. But protection without accountability is impunity. When armed agents refuse to show their faces, names, or badges, they strip the public of the right to know who is exercising state power over our lives.

Even former ICE officials warn these tactics invite chaos—making it impossible to tell law enforcement from criminals. When no one can be identified, accountability disappears. And when accountability disappears, abuse follows.

A government that hides from the people cannot be trusted to serve them.

This Isn’t Immigration Enforcement. It’s a Power Test.

This isn’t about who is targeted—it’s about how.
Masks. Plainclothes. Unmarked cars. Silence.

That’s not rule of law. That’s intimidation.

These tactics don’t just terrorize immigrant communities—they endanger everyone. Criminals are already impersonating ICE, using the same methods to kidnap, assault, and rob. When the state models lawlessness, others follow.

If this can happen to our neighbors, it can happen to any of us.

Disappearances Are the Language of Dictatorships

In a democracy, people are charged—not disappeared.

Yet families are watching loved ones taken without explanation, without dignity, without due process. Legal experts have condemned this as authoritarian by design—an effort to evade responsibility while spreading fear.

This is fear theater. And it corrodes freedom from the inside out.

Unmask the Fear. Restore Accountability.

If ICE believes its actions are lawful, its agents should enforce the law openly—faces uncovered, names visible, authority clear.

Transparency is courage.
Accountability is strength.
Democracy requires both.

That’s why Congress must act—now—to ban secret policing and require visible identification for all federal enforcement.

Today’s Calls to Action

1. Click here: Congress must investigate FBI attacks on anti-ICE dissent

2. Click here to Denounce Trump’s Dehumanization of Immigrants

3. Click here to Tell ICE: Respect Due Process. Restore Bond Hearings.

4. Click here to Unmask ICE. No Secret Police in America.

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