There's a lot of genuinely fucked up things about what's going on today, but the number of people who apparently think that it's just fine for these people to wear identity disguising masks as a regular thing is particularly awful.

Yes. The enormous funding of ICE is at least partially to siphon funds from the federal government. Trump apparently found out that his background in construction ("The Wall") wasn't an efficient way to tap federal allocations. I'm guessing the ICE funding is a new attempt.