And a Fascist, to boot.

Today:

Congressman Mark Alford
[February 5, 2026]

ICE agents wear masks for one reason: to make it home alive to their families.
Doxxing is real. Threats are real. Protecting law enforcement shouldn’t be controversial. [….]

Because masked paramilitaries kidnapping people off the street in violation of the Constitution are only following orders?

Some of the responses:

Criminals also wear masks to hide their identification so they can make it home to their families

I’m calling ice criminals

[….] we’re calling ice criminals who are afraid of being doxed for acting like a criminal enterprise. I wonder why other administrations have had no/hardly any issues concerning ice, but now we’re having massive scale issues with it. Go back to the shadows like they were and quit treating humans like garbage.

just like your j6 heroes

if being an American means bending over and kissing trumps ass and believing everything that his administration is saying and being ok with everything his administration is doing, then I don’t want anything to do with it. Hopefully all you people who live in his alternative reality and wearing Rose color glasses wake up and realize what is happening soon

You can support ICE and want them to do their job ethically and morally. The two aren’t mutually exclusive.

They are now a masked death squad. Dissolve, prosecute, and move on to something else.

the DHS is enforcing administrative law with a militarized police force. It is unnecessary and dangerous. If they were truly concerned about the immigration problem, they would have hired lawyers and administrators to work on the giant backlog of immigrants waiting for their paperwork to go through and they would have properly funded the INS. The current immigration push is racist and based on a white nationalist narrative

undercover operations. This is not that. This is Nazi bullshit.

Those are not “dramatic changes” those are the baseline rules for law enforcement in the United States.

Protecting the Constitution shouldn’t be controversial.

How about visible badge numbers ?

try that again…. the situation is “masked men with guns” are being accused of violating constitutional rights, and are actively using “the law” to do so. To aide their efforts, they’re using facial recognition software to target and harass otherwise “peaceful protesters” simply for wanting the “masked men with guns” out of their city. I don’t think this in an equal measure scenario…. and “pride” doesn’t come from a shameful situation: those protesters shouldn’t feel the NEED to be on the street defending their homes anymore than an officer acting in good faith of the law should hide their identity or intention from the public.

All of those proposals look reasonable. Trump is the champion of doxxing. No one else in law enforcement, the judiciary, public office etc. wears masks.

What percentage of federal, state and local law enforcement are routinely wearing masks and no identification? How many government officials (executive, legislative and judicial) officials are wearing masks and no identification?

WRONG! Legitimate law enforcement that is not violating the Constitution and being the President’s goon squad do NOT need masks and ICE should be held to the same standard as law enforcement everywhere.
Heck, even the GESTAPO (which they are emulating as anyone who knows their history recognizes) did not wear masks. Only crooks wear masks to hide their faces when committing crimes.

So if this is the case, should local police also wear masks? For that matter, should All Law Enforcement officers wear masks? Should Court Judges wear masks? Should the military wear masks? By wearing masks they are not only hiding their identity,but also they are not being held accountable for their actions!
Why do you think robbers wear masks, because they don’t want to get caught doing something illegal! Same thing for ICE agents!

That’s funny. My father was a cop for years and never wore a mask. He even wore his name and his badge number on his uniform.

Most law enforcement officers don’t wear masks and do display their names and badges on their uniforms. There is NO good reason for ICE or CBP to operate any differently than any other legitimate law enforcement agency

bull! They wear masks to frighten people and hide their identities because they’re violating people’s constitutional rights

They why don’t other better trained law enforcement officers wear them?🤔

nope, a person existing in a private capacity can wear whatever face covering they desire when they desire. A government employee is subject to public records act and we demand transparency from all law enforcement. DHS does not have extra authority to arrest, detain, assault, murder anyone without probable cause and/or RAS of a crime. Fucking arresting people because of the color of their skin is against everything America was built on. So, I was trained to eliminate facists and if I have to, it would be my honor.

you really do hate the constitution, dont you?

Protestors are private citizens, not agents of the government with the power they hold. Can you seriously not tell the difference?

If they do the job properly they wouldn’t need to worry. All other law enforcement have identification and don’t wear covering.

Weird. Local law enforcement don’t wear masks…it’s as if following laws and doing it the right way would negate needing to wear masks.

We don’t let city cops — who are much better vetted and trained than ICE and CBP agents and who face at least as much danger as ICE and CBP agents — wear masks. They wear badges with identifying numbers or name tags. ICE and CBP agents should be held to the same standard.

So why don’t local police and sheriff’s officers conceal their identities as well? They actually are tied to the localities they police so i think that the potential for people seeking retribution against them would be even more of a danger for them.

Local cops don’t wear mask Mr. Alford…..why is that ??

If they follow the law there is no reason they should be afraid.

Cops don’t cover their faces plus name tags and badge numbers.

They wear mask so complaints cannot be filed against them or named in lawsuits when they violate the Constitutional rights of individuals. No matter what the Admin says, they are not immune if they commit a crime. It’s pretty hard to sue someone when you can’t ID them

Law abiding law enforcement officers and military personnel do not wear masks.
If you have nothing to hide, hide nothing, including your face.

Odd. My local law enforcement doesn’t usually wear masks, and they make it home alive. People harassing ICE agents and their families should be held accountable, but that doesn’t mean agents should be able to hide from accountability for their own actions.
Of course, if they actually follow the proposed changes, they won’t have so many people mad at them in the first place.

If the actions of these men and women who are wearing masks are legal and moral then they have no reason to hide their identity.

What are they doing that would make them afraid? Why didn’t they need to do this before?

afraid of accountability

Police officers do a much tougher job in the same streets every day and they never wear masks unless they’re suspicious of potential harm through inhaling something during a bust. These guys where masks because they know what they’re doing is messed up on some level and don’t want their faces to be seen.

If ICE agents weren’t acting illegally and treating human beings with an astounding lack of respect for human life, they wouldn’t have the pushback that they do.
If you’re going to be a violent and unsafe person, you’re going to get called out. The public has a right to know who which of their neighbors are committing evil acts so that we know who to avoid.
If you cared about the safety of your constituents, you would understand that.

No Sir, they wear masks to not be held accountable! Every single day police officers go out and risk their lives unmasked and names on their shirts, that’s what true law enforcement does.

Law Enforcement should not be executing people.

There’s that.

So why do ICE agents get to but police can’t? The double standard is wild.

Or to abuse their authority and escape accountability…

IF ICE officers are law enforcement, they should follow what all other law enforcement officers (who also work in sometimes dangerous situations) have to do: provide identification and not cover their faces. They are not the secret police! We need accountability. Without this, these folks are acting with impunity and that will no longer be tolerated. The public is against you. And this.

Only criminals worry about their identity this much. If they have nothing to fear, they’d have nothing to hide.

Then why don’t police need them????? Oh yeah, because they follow humane laws…

Why are you against due process?

All of those things are the *minimum* standards of any law enforcement agency.
If they cannot meet those standards then they can’t be “reformed” and must be abolished.

Congressman Mark Alford They publish ICE Agent deaths. There have been ZERO deaths due to agents being targeted going back to at least 2012. There have been deaths due to cancer from toxic exposure at the 9-11 site, several due to COVID exposure in 2020-2021, an officer’s weapon misfiring on himself, one from dengue fever, a heart attack, a drunk driver striking an officer (wrong place, wrong time). The most recent incident of an ICE Agent dying from an aggressor as a result of his actual work was Jaime Jorge Zapata in February of 2011. Between 2011-2024 160 people died in ICE custody, so… get rid of the masks. Add body cameras and security cameras in the detention facilities. [….]

Never worried about it before, Mark. What changed? If all they are going to do is uphold the law, why do they need to hide, who would care if they were “doxxed” if they were following the law? Not me.

Why is it that local and state police can “make it home alive” without concealing their face?

B.s. every commendable law enforcement officer i know proudly shows there face. And let’s be clear they face far more dangerous criminals on a daily basis, and have from through our history. These masked thugs hide in shame.

There must be transparency

Basic law enforcement requirements. Nothing radical they’re asking for.

I would say police are in more danger every day than ICE and they don’t wear masks and they have to wear body cams. The real reason is so they can be as lawless as they want without any repercussions.

Too bad the American citizens they cross, often don’t make it home in the same shape the started the encounter with, or even make it home at all.

Why would they fear for themselves and their family? Are they doing anything that would make a significant number of moral and reasonable people angry?

If I can’t confirm you’re law enforcement then I can’t be expected to comply.
If I can’t expect you to face consequences for abuse of power, then I can’t expect you not to abuse that power.
Accountability for law enforcement. Justice for Alex Pretti.

Local and State law enforcement do not wear masks. If you need to hide you know what you are doing is wrong. I also equate this to celebrity. If you decide to be a celebrity than you signed up for what celebrity brings. If you sign up to be an ICE Agent then expect your life will not be an easy one.

This is a nonsense debate. In a free country, citizens shouldn’t have to show their papers at the drop of a hat, and in a free country every law enforcement officer should have to prove they’re law enforcement before forcing you to comply with their orders.

Funny our local police don’t wear masks. There must be a difference.

Why is it radical for ICE to be held at the same standard as police?

Please make an argument about why ICE needs to be anonymous when they are grabbing and trafficking a 5-year-old child. Police that are doing their jobs within the bounds of the law don’t need masks. Local police and state police manage to do it while enforcing the law in their communities every day. They don’t wear masks because we trust them with a lot of power and with that power comes accountability. We are their bosses like we are your boss. If you don’t need anonymity for protection, they don’t either. And if you think otherwise, maybe neither you nor they should have the job.

We’re going to Nuremberg you Mark.

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There’s this:

Principles of International Law Recognized in the Charter of the
Nürnberg Tribunal and in the Judgment of the Tribunal
1950

[….]

Principle IV

The fact that a person acted pursuant to order of his Government or of a superior does not relieve him from responsibility under international law, provided a moral choice was in fact possible to him.

[….]

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Word is, they are more afraid of the reaction of their friends and neighbors if their identities are revealed. Don’t do jobs you aren’t proud to have people know you do.
[…..]

More US citizens have not gone home alive thanks to ice in the last month than ice agents haven’t gone home to their families in the last year… so try again.

If not gestapo, why gestapo shaped?

So police officers should wear masks too then ? They shouldn’t wear name badges on their uniforms then anymore huh?

Funny, real law enforcement don’t feel the need to hide behind masks.
That’s probably because they are actually following the law, though. It’s just a little old thing called The Constitution of The United States.

For the millionth time: LAW ENFORCEMENT PERSONNEL CANT BE DOXXED. We do not have secret police in this country. Police are public servants and clear identification is how they are held accountable.
The argument that masking for the safety of the officers falls apart easily because it is not practiced by any other law enforcement entity in America. Their safety is equally important, but so is accountability.

Local police face the same danger of doxxing and still do their jobs without masks and are required to identify themselves when asked. The only difference in the danger level is that ICE agents know that they are breaking the law and violating the constitution and don’t want to be held accountable for that when the fascists inevitably lose power.

So we’re clutching our pearls over doxxing (all the while knowing these thugs are heavily armed),
BUT
We think it’s ok to grab kids out of school, or worse, grab folks from the courtroom at their immigration hearings.
Irony deficiency??

They wear masks to escape responsibility and accountability.

Unmasked legitimate law enforcement officers make it home to their families every day.

How is that “dramatic”? Those should’ve been their procedures from day one

So by that logic ALL law enforcement should be wearing masks and completely anonymous. But of course, they’re not. BECAUSE THEY ALSO NEED TO BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR THEIR ACTIONS.

Really? Police officers don’t need to wear masks…why does ice? If they’re proud of their work then show their face

Weird how REAL police officers don’t seem to have this problem.

Every single one of those items is completely reasonable. If the agents don’t like it, Walmart is hiring.

ICE has devolved into secret police and a tool of retribution. To say nothing of how they are carrying out their work. I’d wear a mask, too.

Why is it less important then for innocent citizens to make it home alive to their families???

Agencies that get to operate in anonymity without accountability or repercussions for grievances are never going down in history as the good guys.

Bull. They wear them because they don’t want to be identified because they are acting illegally.

Police don’t wear masks. Secret police under dictatorships do. If you are afraid of doxxing, don’t do that job.

Crazy, police officers don’t wear masks. Neither does the national guard.

Police, FBI, DEA, ATF, (Any alphabet agency really) nor US military are masked when performing their duties. ICE isnt special, you want the anonymity because you want to protect the criminals from their legal consequences

Not one american has killed an ice agent yet. The reciprocal is not true.

So now we can have criminals masquerading as ICE and how would any know the difference between criminals violently abducting someone off the street and ICE who do the same thing?
Beyond that, have you asked yourself why ICE needs to worry about being doxxed and not our police forces who don’t? Have you asked yourself why previously ICE didn’t need to be masked up at all times? Maybe it is how ICE is operating now and they should be accountable for it. If they were doing what is right and just, they wouldn’t need to hide

they wear masks for one reason NO ACCOUNTABILITY

I guess wearing masks would be OK if they would follow the rules, you know not dragging people out of their cars after breaking out windows, not giving a reason for search and seizure, not kicking in doors and dragging families out of their homes, not accepting people’s papers when offered. Kinda following the constitution.

ICE didn’t need masks until they stopped following the law.

You appear to be confused again, Mark.
Tell us again who is doing the shooting.

They should have badges and badge numbers like real police. And follow the 4th Amendment like real Americans.

Public officials should be identifiable to be held to account for anything. Name, badge number and face should be visible to anyone.

City police officers don’t have to wear masks, sheriff’s departments don’t wear masks, FBI agents don’t wear masks… If you have to wear a mask to hide your identity, you’re not doing it right.

Hey Congressman Mark Alford, judicial warrants are following the law.
Body cameras and ID are lawful activities, especially since agents are demanding everyone they encounter has ID.
Schools have FERPA, hospitals have HIPAA, both are federal protections for students and patients. Churches is safe under the bill of rights.
I thought republicans were against masks? And doxxing is something teachers, doctors, police officers, congressmen, judges, many public officials have to deal with. How many ICE agents have been targeted and hurt? Even the person who murdered Renee Good was doxxed but not hurt. He should be in jail awaiting arraignment. So should at least two of the officers who murdered Alex Pretti.
Use of force standards are important so no officer of any kind can use force just because they want.
This list seems entirely legal and essential to protect rights of all involved. You seem to understand very little of our legal system. I hope all the MO4 voters remember this.

Police don’t wear masks, judges don’t wear masks, prosecutors don’t wear masks, juries don’t wear masks. Doing a job that the citizens support, while above all respecting constitutionally guaranteed rights doesn’t require masks. Secret police, sent to inflame the population, trample rights, and commit wholesale kidnappings require masks.

Why them? Other law enforcement officers do not cover their faces. What are these officers doing that would require their anonymity? Surely everything is above board.

What terrifies me is the lack of accountability when NO identification is required of ICE agents. I believe the majority of agents are good people. Which means we need to be able to identify those that do not follow the law themselves and need accountability. At the very least, replicating the uniform of an ICE agent can be very simple when identification is not required. Which puts people at risk when they can’t identify if the “agents” that show up to their doorsteps are real or not.

Perhaps if they weren’t participating in such heinous activities the public wouldn’t be so angry with them. As my Mama used to say: You can choose what you want to do, but you can’t choose the consequences!

If armed. masked government employees don’t have to show ID why should anyone else have to ?

Well?

And yet the real police don’t have to.

Uh, pretty sure everyone else also wants to make it home to their families. They don’t have an exclusive or better claim on that.

In no decent society do POLICE shield their faces from accountability. You are a moron.

I was a cop for 24 years and didn’t hide my identity. Of course, I was not the Gestapo, so there’s that

How come only ICE officers are in danger of being doxxed?
Is it because they abuse their powers and are not hold accountable for anything?

Asking ICE to perform their duties lawfully shouldn’t be controversial either idiot but here we are.

If ICE behaved like law enforcement, instead of masked gangland thugs, people would have no problem with them.
If they feel they’re somehow threatened, how do they think their victims feel? They’ve brought sny problems on themselves. If they behaved properly, they’d have no need for masks

Law enforcement actually following the law shouldn’t be controversial.

Doing away with an anonymous secret police shouldn’t be controversial. All police run the same risk and understand when they take their oath. They should find another line of work. No other municipal or state police force allow masks.

If they were acting like law enforcement and not unregulated armed thugs they would not need to wear masks

These are all reasonable practices for law enforcement. What would you not support these?

Bullshit. They wear masks to hide their identity while they commit assault and murder, to keep them from being tried and jailed like the thugs they are. LEGITIMATE LAW ENFORCEMENT has NO NEED TO MASK. They’re NOT legitimate, they’re THUGS. Military reject high school dropout idiot masked gestappo goon thugs. THUGS.

… how many ICE agents have been killed? Couldn’t be “zero” could it?seems they’ve been going home this whole time…
Police officers who LIVE IN the neighborhoods they police and are easily recognizable and identifiable in name and residence by the people they arrest WITHOUT running internet searches to tease them out can do their fucking job in a uniform, with a badge, with a name tag, showing their face.
The ONLY reason ICE officers now have to worry about “doxxing” is because they are acting illegally, unconstitutionally, without the consent of the governed, with no respect for the communities they are operating within, and they don’t want to be held accountable to the law.
And we know that because this administration has gone out of its fucking way to prevent them from being held accountable, blatantly lying publicly and under oath, to keep that from happening.
And they keep getting called out for being liars because the people have filmed it – and now the administration is trying to say that filming is obstruction to intimidate the people away from being able to show the truth and DEMAND accountability.
But it’s not going to work. The people are stronger than you think. And your constituents will hold YOU accountable for adhering to the Trump line and standing against the people. Remember while in the unemployment line that your fall is your own doing.

No one would be doxxing them if they weren’t murdering people in cold blood, harassing and detaining people in the US that are here legally or who are citizens, infringing upon constitutional rights or acting like reject Target security guards instead of Law Enforcement. Biden, Obama and Bush had way more deportations than Trump – most people don’t even know that. Want to know why? Because they did it it ways that followed the constitution and they weren’t racially profiling little abuelitas in Mexican restaurants or throwing construction workers off roofs. They didn’t have to wear masks. Not only are you nazi scum but you suck at your jobs compared your predecessors. Quit and go back to smoking weed in your mom’s basement where you belong.

Another MAGA clown.

You’re on a sinking ship

And he’s rearranging the deck chairs.

This is dishonest spin from Congressman Mark Alford. Hiding behind masks while dodging warrants, IDs, and body cams isn’t “safety”—it’s evading accountability. Those so-called “Dem demands” are basic law-enforcement standards. If ICE can’t operate transparently, that’s a problem with ICE, not the public.

Why do they need special treatment more than police? Are they snowflakes? Maybe untrained? Maybe doing terrible things?

But peaceful protesters do not need to get home alive because masked and unidentified ICE agents can shoot at will. So much for 1st Amendment rights and proper police ethics, these men and women are the goons squad and should be identified. Proper police enforcement will not be masked and show proper identity with no fear of reprisal because they perform proper police enforcement.

What about the people’s right to know who is picking them up and that they are legit and not kidnappers? F- ICE

Masks, no badge numbers, big guns, minimal training, and otherwise unemployable thugs roaming the country without regard to boundaries and local laws.
It is indefensible.

And yet, Mark Alford (r) keeps trying.

Zero ICE agents have died violently in the line of duty on US soil and 1 died violently in Mexico in the entire history of ICE. And they killed dozens of people last year and two US citizens in the street last month.
Want to guess how many Postal Inspectors have died violently in the line of duty since their inception despite being 1/10th as many officers as ICE has? Seven.
Being in ICE is not dangerous. Being AROUND them is dangerous.

They hadn’t had to worry about this until after they began their current over-militarized, illegal brutality at the encouragement of their political bosses. And the masks came first. They can behave this way because they know they are protected from the consequences of their actions. Regular cops still show ID and are expected to follow the law…because they might be held accountable.

Makes sense, since some ICE victims didn’t make it home alive to their families and they weren’t masked. You’re an ass.

Don’t you get tired of writing bullshit?

Gestapo fucks. Fuck them and fuck you. That’s all the respect you are due. Fascist prick.

Unidentified masked men running around sounds like a real stupid ass idea.

Due process is real, your values are not

Horse manure. Husband was in law enforcement for over 30 years and never wore a mask. Interesting how it’s only these newly hired, poorly trained cowboys acting like bullies that are wearing masks.

This a sick joke????

Look! Another MAGA boot licker crying about poor masked Nazis being held accountable for terrorizing peaceful communities, brutalizing people and executing protesters.
There is a special place in Hell for anyone who tries to candy coat, gas light or excuse away what ICE is and what they are engaging in.
Shame on you.

You insult us with this bs. Do you really think that we are dumb enough to believe your lies. Total embarrassment to yourself and Missouri.