Over the past several days, left-wing rioters in Los Angeles have clashed with Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials and local police, at one point even hurling bricks at federal agents. The violence unfolding in America’s second-largest city has only further underscored the recklessness of Democrats’ crusade to publicize the names and faces of law enforcement personnel working to enforce immigration law.
Just before the first cars were set ablaze in LA, Democrats were howling about ICE agents making arrests with masks on. Boston Mayor Michelle Wu likened ICE to “secret police,” invoking comparisons to authoritarian regimes. Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, in a recent commencement speech at the University of Minnesota Law School, called ICE agents “Trump’s modern-day Gestapo.”
Other Democrat leaders vowed to publicize the identities of ICE agents – which Trump administration officials said was effectively an invitation for the same left-wing extremists now wreaking havoc in LA to threaten, harass, and potentially harm the agents and their families.
“Every single ICE agent who’s engaged in this aggressive overreach and who are trying to hide their identities from the American people will be unsuccessful in doing that,” House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said last week. “This is America. This is not the Soviet Union. We’re not behind the Iron Curtain. This is not the 1930s. And every single one of them, no matter what it takes, no matter how long it takes, will, of course, be identified.”
Jeffries is threatening what’s known as “doxxing,” or exposing someone’s personal information to harass or otherwise personally damage them. It’s become a popular intimidation tactic online in recent years, but now Democrats are deploying the strategy in their capacities as elected officials.
For some Democrats, it hasn’t just been talk. Late last month, Democrat Nashville Mayor Freddie O’Connell began publishing details of interactions between ICE and Nashville emergency services departments that included the names of agents. In response, Tennessee Senator Marsha Blackburn, a Republican, proposed new legislation that would punish anyone who publicly identifies a federal law enforcement officer with up to five years in prison.
In another case from this February, anti-ICE activists in Southern California distributed flyers with photos and personal details of ICE personnel. Border Czar Tom Homan strongly condemned the act and vowed legal action. Fox News correspondent Bill Melugin shared images on X of the flyers, revealing names, faces, and phone numbers of ICE and Homeland Security Investigation(HSI) agents.
The posters notably included warnings in Spanish reading: “These armed agents work in Southern California. ICE and HSI racially terrorize and criminalize entire communities with their policies. They kidnap people from their homes and from the streets, separating families and fracturing communities. Many people have died while locked up in jails, prisons, and detention centers.”
Scott Mechkowski, a retired ICE agent who served from the mid-1990s until 2019, told Newsweek that the need for masks is obvious – to protect agents and their families from harm. Just imagine what would happen if a swarm of the left-wing radicals burning cars on the streets of LA knew where the ICE agents they are openly threatening to kill live.
In a recent press conference announcing 1,500 arrests in Massachusetts, Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons also explained that officers wear masks to protect themselves after instances of being doxxed and publicly labeled as “terrorists.”
“I’m sorry if people are offended by them wearing masks, but I’m not going to let my officers and agents go out there and put their lives on the line, their family on the line because people don’t like what immigration enforcement is,” Lyons said.
The threats to law enforcement from doxxing aren’t just theoretical, either. The Department of Homeland Security has reported a 413 percent increase in assaults against immigration agents.
“Make no mistake, Democrat politicians like Hakeem Jeffries, Mayor Wu of Boston, Tim Walz, and Mayor Bass of Los Angeles are contributing to the surge in assaults of our ICE officers through their repeated vilification and demonization of ICE,” Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security Tricia McLaughlin said. “From comparisons to the modern-day Nazi Gestapo to glorifying rioters, the violent rhetoric of these sanctuary politicians is beyond the pale. This violence against ICE must end.”
The LA riots aren’t occurring in a vacuum – they are the direct consequence of a political culture that vilifies law enforcement and glorifies lawlessness. When Democrat leaders call ICE agents the “Gestapo” and threaten to dox them, they are pouring gasoline on an already-burning fire. It’s no coincidence that masked radicals now roam the streets with bricks and firebombs, hunting for scapegoats while politicians cheer from the sidelines.
Doxxing ICE agents isn’t “transparency” – it’s a blueprint for violence and an effort to intimidate agents into not doing their job. As LA smolders, the public should understand exactly who lit the match, and what more violence they’d like to unleash on the men and women working to enforce the law.
Sarah Katherine Sisk is a proud Hillsdale College alumna and a master’s student in economics at George Mason University. You can follow her on X @SKSisk76.
This picture shows a rioter holding a sign saying ICE go home. The ICE agents are HOME. It should say illegals go home. The illegals do not want to be Americans. Illegals want free living. GET OUT OF THE USA
We need to Quit calling them Democratic Leaders because there is Nothing Democratic about what is happening. They are DEMOCRATs plain and simple and they are the party fueling the Terror and Destruction across this country.
There are two truths that come to mind for me that sum up certain situations; the first I think of every time there is a shooting at a school, church, or gathering: WHAT STOPS A BAD GUY WITH A GUN? A GOOD GUY WITH A GUN. And the second truth that comes to my mind when mobs take over is this: IN ORDER TO HAVE PEACE, ENFORCE THE LAW. Thank you, President Trump.
This is not a peaceful demonstration. It is an insurrection aimed at toppling the US government. The Democratic Party no longer believes in our government or the rule of law. If a country does not have legal immigration with legal borders, it no longer exists. It is very unlikely that I will ever vote for a Democrat again. As for the Republicans, they lack backbone. Donald Trump is doing the right thing but the actions of some Republican Senators is questionable aiding the insurrectionist.
Democrat=liar, traitor, at least in modern terms. The Democrats are responsible for an American dying approximately every 27 seconds and for bringing in and millions of foreign invaders. That’s what war by subversives looks like. Democrats threaten anyone and everyone who disagree with them. And the Republicans go right along with this treachery.
Every Democrat “leader” who condones this violence should be immediately removed from office and tried for treason.
Very similar to the riots that the George Floyd lies came out of. The liberal media stood right in front of a burning business set on fire by the rioters and said these protests were peaceful. There is nothing peaceful in the riots staged by rotten, radical liberals. They burn, loot and throw bottles and concrete chunks at the law enforces. The most infuriating thing is that they are saying that President Trump is to blame. I applaud Trump for sending in the troops and condemn the LA mayor and Newsom for failing their duties to their citizens. How much more will CA need to take before they stop voting for horrible “leadership”? Bass and Newsom allowed the destructive fires to happen and now they are letting looting and burning further ruin this once-great city!! And news flash for Bass and Newsom….Federal law “Trumps” state law!
why the hell does a foreigner have any right to tell the USA haw to run our country. go back where you came from and try that. you would get your head split open in a heartbeat.
And yes, I too think someone knows who is funding and organizing these riots. I have a feeling the FBI knows a lot that we don’t. I just hope they get it solved soon. Arresting and/or deporting the low level perps is the first step, but we need a way to get at the top of the chain, and get rid of them one way or another.
This is being perpetrated by the Radical Democrats.
The same individuals that think The US needs to save the World.
This is insanity! The USA is not Responsible for these 3rd world countries problems.
We were invaded by millions of people running free in our Country.
The Biden Administration,did Absolutely nothing stop the illegal immigration. This is an Organization that is Attacking President Trump.
noking.org look it up.
This is a Hate Group.
and a Domestic Terrorists Group.
I will back President Trump with my last breath!
I read that WE have funded this violence through giving to certain organizations. To look at these protests with burning cars, throwing bricks and rocks at Federal agents and cars makes you to ask yourself if you are still in the US. The governing in LA and CA have turned a blind eye and blame anyone but themselves. O would like to meet up with one waving a foreign flag and can’t say what I would do! I actually think I am looking at a third world country. Bring the USMC in. They know what to do!
Doxing a Federal LEO should be a crime punishable by time in jail. It is particularily offensive when threatened or carried out by public officials such as Jeffries and his ilk!
Keep Ice ! Love ICE !
ICE agents have to use masks due to Doxxing & for safety in riots
Riots are planned
protestors PAID to riot
ID fund source, shut down funds=No riots since NO riotters paid
The woman in the lead photo with the sign “Ice Must Go” has got it all wrong. She needs to go find a place that will put up with her radical thinking and acting.
There is absolutely NO justification for anyone to physically harm a Citizen of the United States, burn the property or their business, throw bottles, stones, bricks at another human being, especially Law Enforcement. If you do not like the way this Country is being run, you are more that welcome to accompany the illegals who have invaded this Country to wherever they came from. Make no mistake about it, they are invaders, in this Country illegally, without invitation or proper application. In other words, they do not belong.
To those who cry who will work for me, I suggest you work for yourself, or maybe hire some of those able bodied folks who think Welfare and Medicaid is free. Let them pay taxes for a change and then see how they feel.
Governor Newsom and Mayor Bass need to be recalled and jailed as they have not now, nor during he fires earlier this year, upheld their oath they took when they got their job. They are a disgrace.
It’s high time for patriotic Americans to broadcast the fact that the Democrat party is against the USA and its citizens. The leaders of the Democrat party are actively working to destroy a Constitutional Republic. The US is a young country which deserves to be protected and respected. America, the land of liberty and freedom, is a beacon of law and order — not a failed experiment, which is ready to become part of the globalists killing fields.
I would think that your average American citizen would be enraged by the behavior of folks trying to keep a person from doing their job by threatening the ICE officers. I think it should be a federal crime to “dox” these people and elected officials like Jeffries should be disciplined by the US Senate. The Liberals are just plain loosing their minds!
Arrest & put into custody the scum known as Sanctuary Democrats. Their charges: Inciting to riot, domestic terrorism, impeding a Federal operation. That should get them at least 15 years each
Until some of the Dem lawmakers are held accountable for their narratives, it will get worse. Censure Hakeem Jeffries, Jazmine Crockett, AOC, Maxine Watters!!! THEY are the problem. And arrest and prosecute EVERY single rioter caught, do NOT let them go! Since its a federal arrest, the lax LA County and other sanctuary DAs shouldn’t be able to stop it. And Republicans can judge shop just as easily as Dems.
The democrats are fanning the flames against the federal government. By paying illegals to wage war. They are attacking federal agents and federal buildings. The president has every right to send in soldiers to assist the local police to quell these warmongers. The democrats are the cheerleaders on the side lines and give these warmongers a free pass with their rhetorical lies. No migrant families have been torn apart nor has anyone been killed. Police officers and innocent bystanders have been hurt by these warmongers. Property has been destroyed by burning cars and breaking windows. What justification can the dems come up with, with this sort of destruction. Well one democrat was heard to say “they are just having fun watching burning cars”. Let’s go a step further and say the same thing when they are killing someone or raping. It’s all in fun to watch. On top of that they are going to release all murderers and rapists from jail if they were younger than 26 when they committed these crimes. They need more people to have fun watching cars burn plus burning down cities and killing police officers and soldiers. The democrats unleashed a war in LA. I said this would happen in 2021 after the thousands of people were let into this country illegally. They were groomed to become pockets of resistance to overthrow the government. And here we are. Biden screamed it from the White House, Schumer from the senate and Pelosi from the House. They never thought Trump would win. They were the perfect party for America. Only the people saw through their satanic rhetoric. Trump won. But they don’t care just another obstacle to overcome till they have total power over this country. Their rhetoric that ICE agents should not be masked says it all. It’s the democrats that have been making enemies out of political opponents. Especially if they are in the government. That’s why the FBI and CIA and DOJ all were politicized under Biden. They have taken the rights away from every American citizen that voted for Trump. What we have in La and elsewhere is war of insurrection.
Unfortunately, I live in California. I’ve seen many people say that we voted for this. WE DID NOT! For years we’ve watched Sacramento, change votes, ignore votes, deny votes and basically run the state as a dictatorship. No one has investigated the voter fraud in California, because of the powers that be who run the state.
I’ll be homeless in a month because my apartment complex raised my rent too high and the cost of living is outrageous compared to my social security income. I can’t afford to stay and I can’t afford to leave. There are no affordable apartments for senior citizens.
These riots are being bought and paid for by people who don’t align with most Californian’s. Newsom saying he will leave the USA and make California a part of Mexico, is only HIM talking. We, the citizens, DON’T WANT THAT! The majority of us want to be rescued from this hell that we’ve been under for far too long!
At the same time Jeffries fully promotes BLM and ANTIFA terrorist to hide their identities. Democrats always “Do as we tell you, not what we do”!
Stop referring to it as the “LA Riots”. Call it what it really it…the LA “Insurgency”. This is simply a “ratcheting-up” of what will ultimately become the war for the soul and future of the Founding Fathers’ America.
Jeffries is full of hot air. He wants ICE unmasked but the rioters can wear masks
I could not say it any better than Dr. Capital.
What happened to BLM, Climate Change, Palestinians, LBGTQ+ ? Same idiots. Different signs.
Maybe the cops on LA should a moto Detroit used in 1967. You loot, we shoot. Pray God it does not come to that. God bless the USA.
Had “sanctuary cities” allowed ICE and border officials to remove the truly evil from their communities, average, working illegals would not be swept up in this now. But the lawlessness will not be ignored at this point and they will be deported as well. Nothing new. The left most often works against their own interests and constituents. Frankly, not bright enough to see a few steps ahead. No ‘State’ is allowed to circumvent Federal law, barring powers granted them by the Constitution and laws to that effect. Border laws are Federally protected. We can have a Civil War over it if you like, but you will lose. And local lawmakers pushing the lawlessness will be removed. This is not a social issue, it’s a Constitutional one. Violence and destruction will not be tolerated, and ‘peaceful protest’ is not a phrase which can or may be defined by the Citizenry or even elected officials, local or Federal. Do yourselves a favor and go home. Or…we can handle up. Either way. Just be aware you are in grave danger at your own action and choosing. If you don’t want to be smart, the results are on luck’s side.
These fools with signs..ICE MUST GO…ridiculous…Government always had precedent!!
The President needs to enforce
E -verify,this will stop the jobs being given to those who are illegal. If it is enforced they will have no reason to come here because they will not get paid. Stop the illegal payouts and handouts and this will stop the border issue.
ICE STAYS—–go can go nicely, or the hard way!
SAYONNARA
Sarah Huckabee Sanders had it 100% correct last year when she said that there is a contest between insane persons and normal persons! DIMMs have about a 20% favorability rating and STILL they keep doing the same things! How stupid [insane] is that? If these thugs love Mexico so much that they wave their flag and burn OURS, why don’t they all GO HOME and take the likes of NewSCUM and his crew along with them!
The treason party is going all out with this because the millions of third world invaders will guarantee electoral success for them, as long as theyre not deported. Politically speaking its life and death for them.
Exactly what government is funding these organized protests? Is it still coming from Washington Democratic “cushion funds?” Does anyone know for sure or does this funding date back to the OBAMA days. Seems to me that the past three presidents have certainly tallied enough terrorism against our own country to be all put in JAIL, but they are living life and loving this! SOMETHING REALLY SMELLS HERE.
Democrat President James Polk had a more appropriate response to Mexican aggression.
Good for ICE, DEA, Local Police, National Guard and the lovely Marines. Newsome is only concerned about himself and thinks he is pretty and should be president. What a dandy. LOL
Pretty sure the Democraps wouldn’t like getting DOXed but they call for ICE agents to get DOXed. Maybe the favor needs returned. Wonder how they would like that. They are promoting pure violence against officers performing their duty. Democraps who condon any of this are evil worthless so called human beings.
I fully concur. What’s frustrating is how libtards like Jeffries, AOC and mad Maxine Waters can spew hate speech and violent rhetoric, and they don’t get held accountable. Just imagine Republican members of Congress saying the same things….they would be chastised.
Good article on who is funding this and the protest to come.
https://americanfaith.com/exposing-no-kings-anti-trump-machine/
Dumbacraps are all Liars Cheaters and Thieves. They would not know how to do anything peaceful. It is about time they get back what they give. I know I should not be that way but I am getting sick of the Violence that they are getting away with. Find out who is funding this and put them in Prison.
if ICE agents are injured in any way, the people who threatened to dox them and also actually doxxed them should be considered accessories to those crimes and punished to the fullest extent of the law.
I agree
Do the looters get to keep their masks while they want ICE to drop theirs ?
The Democratic Party is encouraging this behavior! The Democratic Party are enemies to America and our government! President Trump should deport all of them as enemies to our country! The Democratic Party has been wanting war!
I say give Mexico all
of California!!! Let’s redefine the border! They want all
these degenerates, give it to them! Then see how they all act?
Just like all the other riots, I’m sure the Dems are paying loads of them to stir this up and keep this going.
So the left is trucking in riot gear for the ‘peaceful’ protesters. I guess our taxes are paying for that too. These dem’s pushing this are sickos. Hasn’t CA already suffered enough with all the fires. Yet the Dems push for more burning.
All freedom loving Americans should apply ongoing “pressure” to our Representatives to 1) pass the Marsha Blackburn bill prohibiting doxxing of federal agents and 2) fund the enforcement of such legislation with certain penalties of imprisonment to any person aiding or abetting such use of personal information for harm to law enforcement officers or their families. That would include Hakeem Jeffries and any other “Democrat” or “R/r” aiding and/or encouraging the means of personal violence to our police and ICE. KH
It is time to DOX the democrat party members of congress at federal and state levels. DOX Newscum, Waters, Swalwell, AOC, Jasmine Crocket, Pelosi.
Ms. Sisk is right on point. These people who attack, assault and burn our cities are a threat to public safety, and should be jailed for a long time.