Frankly, if an ICE agent or lawyer is concerned about violence on themselves and their family enough to hide their identity for just doing their job, which is wholly legal…that says more about the fucked up morality of those people who would seek to do them and their families harm far more than any commentary of the right and wrong of their duty.

A sensible comment like yours on getting downvoted just tells me that there are people on here that are blind to pragmatism.

More likely, they don't want to be attacked at home by the kind of people who ambushed ICE agents on July 4th. [1]

Or by the cartels, for whom smuggling people into the United States is a lucrative (and violent) business. [2]

1: https://abcnews.go.com/US/10-arrested-after-ambush-texas-ice...

2: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/25/us/migrant-smuggling-evol...

all they have to do is stop breaking the law.

"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable."

Show me what legal recourse people have to get their needs met, and I will show you how those avenues are being clamped down on by the very same people concerned about their safety.

> from the violent protestors and gangs

Where is this happening, and does data show this at a level unprecedented in American history? We’ve prosecuted people ranging from colonial British loyalists to the Klan to the Mob, street gangs and drug cartels, militias, al-Qaeda / ISIS types, and the January 6th insurrectionists and government lawyers haven’t needed to hide their identities. The idea that these lawyers have such an unprecedented grave risk really needs some serious evidence to be taken seriously because the potential for abuse is huge.

Do you support the police wearing masks?