Commentary by Sanford D. Horn
July 10, 2025
During the Covid-19 pandemic, Democrats couldn’t mask up fast enough - slapping masks on anyone and everyone - including infants, including while driving in cars alone. They would have strapped a mask on Lady Liberty if they could have made one big enough.
Now, midway through 2025, the sight of people in masks sends Democrats into apoplectic fits and rages. To be fair, the Democrats only lose their minds when seeing ICE (US Immigration and Customs Enforcement) officers donning masks - and doing so for their own protection and self preservation. Apparently, to the Democrats, not all people are or should be treated equally.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), in a display of pure grandstanding and ignorance, demanded ICE agents be unmasked. ICE agents wear masks for their own protection while conducting immigration raids in an effort to root out criminal illegal aliens. Jeffries calls for the unmasking of ICE agents in the interest of transparency and vows to “unmask every single ICE agent,” knowing full well this will endanger these government officials. “This is America, not the Soviet Union,” Jeffries bloviated.
Yet Jeffries and myriad Democrats calling for the unmasking of ICE agents, are not demanding the same of the criminal illegal aliens wearing masks to hide their identity from ICE agents. Jeffries, fellow New York Democrat Dan Goldman, and their anti-law and order Democrat colleagues are not demanding protesters, rioters, and looters take to the streets unmasked. Nor are they calling for the unmasking of anti-American, antisemitic, and anti-Capitalist protesters on hundreds of college and university campuses.
Like the mayors of numerous sanctuary cities, House and Senate Democrats are defending and protecting the masking of criminals, protesters, and troublemakers while those very miscreants are doxxing ICE agents, putting their personal information - photos and addresses - online or on posters tacked to telephone poles in various neighborhoods. This puts ICE agents in danger of being outed and known to drug cartels, gangs and groups like MS-13, tren de aragua, and Sinaloa. These animals play for keeps and the grandstanding of partisans like Jeffries and Goldman in their zeal to score political points, are putting the lives of these ICE agents, and, quite frankly, their families, in jeopardy.
Mayors such as Michelle Wu of Boston, Brandon Johnson of Chicago, Mike Johnston of Denver, Karen Bass of Los Angeles, Ras Baraka of Newark, NJ, Sheng Thao of Oakland, and Muriel Bowser of Washington, DC who run sanctuary cities, have said they would protect and defend the illegal aliens in their cities, using taxpayer dollars to fund such protections.
Governors such as Katie Hobbs of Arizona, Gavin Newsom of California, Jared Polis of Colorado, JB Pritzker of Illinois, Maura Healey of Massachusetts, Phil Murphy of New Jersey, and Kathy Hochul of New York also announced their intentions to protect and defend the illegal aliens in their states, and would likewise commit taxpayer dollars to fund the illegals.
Additionally, these aforementioned mayors and governors, along with others in more blue cities and states, announced in no uncertain terms that they and their police forces will not cooperate with ICE. So, in addition to wanting to out, and put at risk ICE agents by unmasking them, these so-called leaders of American cities and states are harboring, defending, and protecting illegals, they are hypocritically not calling for the thugs, protesters, rioters, and looters to commit their crimes sans masks. These masked marauders, just this week alone, have rioted in San Francisco and Camarillo, CA endangering the safety and lives of ICE agents.
One of the biggest hypocrites is US Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA), who, filmed through Covid and beyond wearing a mask, said ICE agents would “have more credibility” without masks. His was one of the loudest voices demanding mask mandates - including for infants and toddlers, which had been medically proven to be unnecessary. It is even more hypocritical for Swalwell to dare opine on anyone’s credibility. Remember, this is the Congressman who had an illicit relationship with a suspected Chinese spy - Christine Fang, a.k.a. Fang Fang.
Taking this demasking of ICE agents to a deeper level of stupidity is one of Swalwell’s colleagues, US Rep. Lou Correa (D-CA). The fifth term backbencher announced this week that “I’m gonna introduce legislation that essentially says no more masked federal agents in our community.” This is not just stupid, and a waste of time for Congress, it has two chances of passing - slim and none.
What is genuinely disconcerting is that there is actual support for this myopic notion that continues embracing the open borders policies of both the Obama and Biden administrations. These are the America Last folks who, quite frankly, should be charged with treason, and at the very least be removed from office. This is the crowd calling ICE agents Nazis and gestapo, much to the vexation and mortification of Holocaust survivors who know what real Nazis and gestapo were.
This potential legislation is not just foolish and putting ICE agents in harm’s way, it demonstrates those who support it simply hate their country. Putting illegal aliens who are, themselves masked, and committing crimes, above and ahead of American citizens - the hardworking ICE agents, is inappropriate prioritization. These anti-American elected officials must be challenged by strong, pro-American candidates in the 2026 midterms. The men and women of ICE have difficult enough jobs to do in the first place, they certainly don’t need members of their own government throwing roadblocks in their way. Members like those, as well as the mayors and governors siding against their own constituents have no business holding elected office in the United States of America.
Sanford D. Horn is a writer and educator living in Westfield, IN.
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