It isn’t just the lives they’ve destroyed by stalking and arresting innocent people. It isn’t even just their trashing of the U.S. Constitution. Now it’s also the trickle-down effect of their storm-trooper tactics.

By allowing masked agents, some even in civilian clothes, to grab people from their homes, their jobs, their schools, their places of worship, or simply off the streets, Donald Trump has now effectively created a new genre of criminality: ICE impersonators.

Grab a gun and a mask, act like a tough guy, shout “ICE,” and you’re free to attack, rob, even kidnap innocent people at will. And all of the witnesses and CCTV footage in the world will be unable to identify you.

Since the start of this year, at least two dozen cases of people impersonating immigration officers have been revealed. These range from verbal intimidation of immigrants to actual violent crimes; and the victims have no way of determining whether their attackers are actually government agents.

California’s Governor Gavin Newsom last month signed a bill — the first in the U.S. — banning agents from wearing masks during operations in his state. But the White House declared the California law unconstitutional, and has said that ICE will not abide by it. [Alexandra Banner, CNN’s 5 Things a.m., October 3, 2025.]

So let me get this straight: It is now “unconstitutional” to outlaw an act that is itself blatantly unconstitutional . . . right?

What the hell . . . ??!!!

Just sayin’ . . .

Brendochka
10/3/25