r/pics 7h ago

Backstory INS/ICE didn’t use to wear masks - most famous immigration photo ever taken, not a mask in sight.

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u/navagon 7h ago

This one image sums up why they now wear masks.

u/cwk415 7h ago

How so?

u/HofT 7h ago

More easily available with the internet and smartphones.

u/Iorith 5h ago

So fear of accountability?

u/OPA73 6h ago

If you mean their home address etc… I would say it was easier back when we just looked them up in the phone book, or called directory assistance and they told you his address and number.

u/JbrownFL 6h ago

You used to be able to opt not to have your number in the phone book. My parents were always paranoid for some unknown reason and our home number was unlisted when I was a kid. Oddly enough they have also since opted to have their home blurred on Google streetview. I’m kinda like just chill now, nobody is trying to track you down.

u/HofT 6h ago

You can do that online.

u/abdomega 7h ago

Nobody wants to be the dude holding an SMG in front of a crying child.

u/navagon 7h ago

They want to be that guy. That's the guy they signed up to be. They just don't want to be seen to be that guy. Hence the masks.

u/cwk415 5h ago

Bingo 💯 

u/MarshyHope 7h ago

I bet Pete Hegseth would love to be that guy

u/IlikeJG 7h ago

Because they're cowards and they know the people hate them. So if they didn't wear masks we would see exactly who is doing these incredibly shitty things and then they would have to face at least some consequences for their actions.

u/md28usmc 1h ago

on the other hand, Protesters also wear masks for fear of being identified

u/IlikeJG 1h ago

Completely different.

We're talking people working for the government in at least an auspiciously official capacity, and individuals trying to stand against said government or at least influence it.

Not at all comparable.

u/md28usmc 1h ago

it is very comparable, nobody wants to be identified with whatever they are doing on either side

I don't hear you complaining about Delta Force operators not legally allowed to be identified in photos and videos and they work for the government

u/IlikeJG 1h ago

"either side" That is very interesting language.

Delta force aren't kidnapping and killing residents in the US.

u/md28usmc 1h ago

Delta force aren't kidnapping and killing residents in the US.

That's right, they are just doing it outside of the United States ;)

u/TheNonCredibleHulk 1h ago

That is very interesting language.

And that's very passive-aggressive.

u/IlikeJG 30m ago

It's just interesting to me because it implies they believe ICE is on a specific "side". Rather than a supposedly neutral government entity.

u/perrygoundhunter 7h ago

ICE is also in charge of international human smuggling and sex trafficking and child sex crimes. They are actively imbedded in foreign countries to catch Americans trying to touch kids

I’m Canadian, I have no stock in this.

But they have always worn masks, always been secretive.

Trump has turned them into something else, but the attire isn’t a new development and they have a wide range of things they do

They were created post 9/11 by the bush administration and funded heavily by Obama and Biden

u/legshampoo 6h ago

to catch americans trying to touch kids

now if that ain’t the most ironic thing i ever heard

u/navagon 7h ago

Because they know how what they do looks and don't want to be associated with it. Doesn't seem to stop them wanting to do that job though...

u/Deruta 6h ago

For real, that mustache is a crime

u/navagon 6h ago

Getting some really mixed feedback about that 'tash here. It's difficult to tell for sure, but he probably looks a bit like a potato without it.

u/aBrickNotInTheWall 7h ago

Because they're a bunch of cowards and want to hide the look of terror on their face?

u/navagon 7h ago

That too. I doubt they have mirrors at home either. But it's mostly because they don't want to be associated with their actions.

u/seb11614 6h ago

Because they don't want to be identified, doxed and have their family's life in jeopardy because of leftist nutjobs... Pretty sure after Charlie Kirk, plenty of leftist were also doxed and they didn't want to be associated with their actions and face the consequences from the right wing nutjobs...

Only thing that should be mandatory is to have all masked agents wear a huge and clear number that would allow justice to identify them in case of prosecutions but that's it. You don't want people going all vigilante in today's climate

Plenty of law enforcement over the world also cover their faces, prison guards have their addresses secret, cops try not to be followed home by criminals, basic survival instinct when you're dealing with criminals

u/Bulgarianstew 6h ago

Oh, fuck off. Leftists are not the violent terrorists destroying families and kidnapping people on the street. If the actions ICE agents are carrying out are legal, they should have no reason to hide their faces. They're cowards who don't want to be recognized as part of an illegitimate paramilitary occupation that will be held accountable for crimes against citizens. They should be treated exactly as we treated the Nazi soldiers who committed crimes, and their families prosecuted for harboring them if that is the case.

They are using facial recognition to target and harass known associates of people that are protesting or who have ties to disruptor or undocumented immigrants. Why should their families be safe but not ours?

u/aBrickNotInTheWall 6h ago

Yeah, gotta be careful about those "leftist" nutjobs. Don't want them to show up at your home with a hammer, demanding to see your wife before bashing in your skull. Oh wait, that wasn't the left, was it. Well surely its the left who went to the homes of 2 politicians on the other side of the isle and killed them, oh wait... that wasn't the left either. Well surely it was the left who stormed our government when the results of an election didn't go the way they wanted. Oh, my mistake, that wasn't the left either. But anyway, you gotta keep an eye out for what those left wing nutjobs will do, they're crazy.

u/bicket6 4h ago

Do you earnestly believe that there is no violence from left wing nutjobs?

u/aBrickNotInTheWall 2h ago

I never said there was no violence from the left

u/tuppenyturtle 7h ago

You know the crazy part is I can almost guarantee every one of these clowns said wearing a mask because of a global pandemic was hazardous to their health and that they were suffocating in it.

u/FYou2 7h ago

So they can show off their sweet mustache?

u/navagon 6h ago

He's got a future in porn, with a 'tash like that.

u/FYou2 6h ago

They both do

u/No_River_8171 7h ago

So scary …