No wonder agents arresting people at Phoenix immigration court wore masks

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3. Why are ICE agents such cowardly wusses?

by Will Bunch | Columnist
Published May 13, 2025, 10:59 a.m. ET

... remember that documentary that Fox News Channel’s Tucker Carlson put out there a few years back with the fear-soaked title, The End of Men? This televised moral panic about the feminization of modern American life featured men indulging in all sorts of gross-out quackery to reconnect with society’s lost manhood ...

... I’ll tell you my first candidate for getting zapped down there: the performatively male officers who work for America’s alphabet soup of Department of Homeland Security agencies — especially U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and its little sister, Homeland Security Investigations.

They are suddenly everywhere all at once — waiting for hours in unmarked cars before pouncing in their blue jeans and untucked shirts, never wearing a badge but almost always donning a ski mask or a full-blown balaclava, even on 80-degree days. They epitomize America’s de-evolution from G.I. Joe to Mort from Bazooka Joe, but with less maturity than that, as they push around teenage girls and octogenarians, and are barely believable when they command, “We are the police!”

These dubious tactics — which are meant to intimidate undocumented immigrants and the American people writ large — instead reek of the agents’ own fear and paranoia. That came to a head last Friday in a shocking incident in which these masked desperados went wild over a lawful inspection of Newark’s new ICE detention facility by three New Jersey members of Congress and the city’s mayor ...

https://www.inquirer.com/columnists/attytood/ice-immigration-arrests-trump-pope-leo-xiv-villanova-20250513.html