So you don't understand why federal agents are masked as they carry out their duties and you even think it is indicative of the Trump administration's alleged authoritarianism or even fascism?
Allow to provide the explanation on Fox News:
On Thursday evening outside of Newark’s Delaney Hall detention center, protesters were accused of biting, kicking and punching agents.
Protesters? Or hysterical members of a mob? One of the drama queens can be heard bellowing at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer:
"I will kill your whole f-cking family. Your whole f-cking family is dead. Your children and wife — all dead. I have your face motherf-cker! You're dead! Dead!"
"That’s a federal crime," Acting US Attorney General Todd Blanche said on "The Will Cain Show". "Not only threatening the ICE officer — but think about how disgusting this individual is by threatening his wife and his children with death."
The extremist who was eventually arrested turns out to be one Nicolas Scelfo, a brave and fearless revolutionary who was "previously charged with sexual abuse of children related to the dissemination and possession of child pornography."
This is not an outlier — far from it. Back in December 2025, reported,🚨“WE WILL FIND HIM.”
— The Will Cain Show (@WillCainShow) May 28, 2026
Acting AG @DAGToddBlanche responds after an individual allegedly threatened to murder an I.C.E. officer, his wife, and children.
Todd Blanche says threats against law enforcement families cross a line — and federal prosecutors are treating it as a serious… pic.twitter.com/X58oKlCUxN
Two New Jersey brothers were arrested … on charges tied to terroristic threats against DHS chief Kristi Noem’s top public-facing deputy, including alleged vows to "shoot ICE agents on sight."
Besides posting medieval torture threats, the twins Antonio Roman-Flores and Emilio Roman-Flores added that
"We Americans should find you, tar you, feather you, and hang you as we did to anyone serving tyrants before the Revolutionary War."
(Historically, FYI, either you tar and feather someone, or you hang them. Rarely — if ever — do you do both. I.e., either the alleged offense warrants tarring and feathering as a punishment or it is so egregious that it warrants nothing less than execution.)
Useful Reminder: From child pornographers to women killers via reckless drivers, here are a handful of examples of the type of illegal alien who has been targeted by ICE.
No wonder there is so much hostility towards ICE agents (and their families) when they are constantly being described as fascists and Nazis. And it's not just random thugs in the street, either. From town halls (Boston's Mayor Michelle Wu) to the hallowed halls of Congress (New York Representative Jerry Nadler) comes a steady stream of hysterical invective against Donald Trump and the people serving in his government.
As Stephen Green writes, it is correct that ideally,
Federal agents shouldn’t be masked — but there’s really no alternative when the Left has turned to doxxing and violence.
With Mike LaChance adding a point or two about the Left's double standards:
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) and other Democratic figures are calling for the exposure of ICE agents, demanding that their masks be removed so they can be identified. Members of ICE wear masks because they are facing death threats against them and their families. Democrats are putting their lives at risk over this.
Of course, Democrats have never called for members of Antifa or the anti-Israel campus radicals to be unmasked. Curious, isn’t it?
… Go back and look at [Legal Insurrection's] extensive coverage of anti-Israel protesters on college campuses over the last two years. You know what you’ll find they all have in common? All of the protesters are wearing masks.
Democrats have never called for them to be unmasked. That tells you everything you need to know.
They want and need anarchy, adds JEFFREY CARTER:
My old liberal acquaintances are very upset with Trump. They are posting all over LinkedIn about the “rule of law”. Pretty clear they have no understanding of the law. They wonder why ICE agents are wearing masks. Maybe it’s a fear of Covid, but I’m joking. Masks never worked for Covid. They are wearing masks because terrorist organizations like ANTIFA are threatening them and their families with violence.
It’s pretty clear the Democrats have chosen violence as the next level of escalation. Charlie Kirk was murdered in cold blood. A Virginia Attorney General candidate threatens to put bullets in the heads of the Virginia Speaker of the House and his children. There are no calls from any Virginia Democrat for him to step down, let alone any Democrat.
As it happens, it turns out that the Antifa Thugs in Portland and Newark Laying Siege to ICE detention facilities are PAID. Could the same be said of, say (oh, I dunno), the January 6 protesters?
Incidentally (not): ever wonder why most congress policemen were not wearing masks on January 6? Could it be they knew that they, not to mention their families, had nothing to fear from the protesters? Glenn Reynolds lays it out bare:
This is much more violent than January 6. January 6 was American citizens acting like Americans. This is enemies of America acting like enemies.The Democrats do a January 6th every day, every week. Their target is ICE.
— Ari Fleischer (@AriFleischer) May 31, 2026
J6 was a riot.
THIS is in insurrection. https://t.co/CO78hvNpgt
