Blue state lawmaker rallies around mask ban for federal agents as ICE operations ramp up

California State Sen. Scott Wiener is introducing authorities to prohibit instrumentality enforcement from hiding their faces erstwhile moving with the public, arsenic good arsenic making definite they tin place themselves.

The scrutiny comes arsenic Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is expanding arrests successful Los Angeles and passim California, which triggered anti-ICE protests and riots successful the portion past week.

The measure would apt look ineligible challenges arsenic it attempts to modulate national authorities astatine a authorities level if signed into law.

DHS FIRES BACK AT DEMOCRATS FOR 'BEYOND THE PALE' RHETORIC AS ICE AGENTS FACE WAVE OF VIOLENT THREATS

California authorities Sen. Scott Wiener. (Scott Wiener )

"We’re announcing caller authorities — the No Secret Police Act (SB 627) — to prohibition local/state/federal instrumentality enforcement, w/ immoderate exceptions, from covering their faces erstwhile interacting w/ the nationalist & necessitate them to deterioration identifying info," Wiener posted to X connected Monday.

"We’re seeing the emergence of concealed constabulary — masked, nary identifying info, adjacent wearing service fatigues — grabbing & disappearing people. It’s antithetical to ideology & harms communities. The No Secret Police Act tin assistance extremity the fearfulness & chaos this behaviour creates successful communities," the Democrat continued.

ICE agents volition sometimes deterioration a look covering arsenic the officers person seen an summation successful arrests and assaults successful caller weeks, according to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). A radical precocious faced scrutiny and doxxing accusations implicit creating a database of ICE officers, according to Newsweek.

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Burned-out Waymo cars enactment the thoroughfare successful downtown Los Angeles connected Monday, June 9, 2025. The vehicles were acceptable ablaze by rioters. (Derek Shook for Fox News Digital)

A DHS spokesperson pushed backmost connected Wiener's connection and anti-ICE rhetoric, calling it "despicable."

"Sen. Scott Wiener’s projected authorities banning our national instrumentality enforcement from wearing masks and his rhetoric comparing ICE to "secret police"—likening them to the Gestapo—is despicable," Tricia McLaughlin told Fox News Digital. "While ICE officers are being assaulted by rioters and having rocks and Molotov cocktails thrown astatine them, a sanctuary person is trying to outlaw officers wearing masks to support themselves from being doxed and targeted by known and suspected violent sympathizers."

"Not lone is our ICE instrumentality enforcement facing a much than 400 percent summation successful assaults, but we’ve besides seen thugs motorboat websites to uncover ICE officers’ identity. We volition prosecute those who dox ICE agents to the fullest grade of the law," she continued. "The men and women of ICE enactment their lives connected the enactment each time to apprehension convulsive transgression amerciable aliens to support and support the lives of American citizens. Make nary mistake, this benignant of rhetoric is contributing to the surge successful assaults of ICE officers done their repeated vilification and demonization of ICE."

"Scott, spell cheque with a lawyer if this is simply a thing, and get backmost to us. (Hint — it isn’t— states can’t modulate what national instrumentality enforcement wears)," Harmeet Dhillon, adjunct lawyer wide for civilian rights astatine the Department of Justice, posted to X.

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ICE OFFICIAL PUTS POLITICIANS ON BLAST, DEMANDING THEY 'STOP PUTTING MY PEOPLE IN DANGER'

The White House is celebrating a "blockbuster" week for President Donald Trump’s migration agenda, with a spokesperson saying, "It’s a atrocious time to beryllium an amerciable alien and a large time to beryllium an American." (Win McNamee/Getty Images and ICE)

Many Democratic critics of the ICE sweeps person said that it has unfairly harmed communities, families and amerciable immigrants who person not committed different crimes. Some, similar Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, person besides cited economical concerns.

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"Mayors crossed the L.A. portion and the state person spoken retired unequivocally against these reckless raids and the Trump administration’s chaotic escalation present successful Los Angeles," Bass said past week, according to a quality release. "When you raid Home Depots and workplaces, erstwhile you teardrop parents and children apart, and erstwhile you deploy troops to our streets, you’re not trying to support anyone harmless – you’re trying to origin fearfulness and panic. These raids indispensable stop."