Unmasking ICE

揭露ICE

Today, Explained

2025-07-02

27 分钟
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ICE agents are showing up to immigration raids masked. The Trump administration says it's for the protection of the agents, but how does it impact accountability? This episode was produced by Hady Mawajdeh and Miles Bryan with help from Peter Balonon-Rosen, edited by Amina Al-Sadi, fact-checked by Laura Bullard and Gabrielle Berbey, engineered by Andrea Kristinsdottir and Patrick Boyd, and hosted by Noel King. Listen to Today, Explained ad-free by becoming a Vox Member: vox.com/members. Transcript at vox.com/today-explained-podcast. Residents surround federal and Border Patrol agents after an immigrant raid in Bell, CA. Photo by Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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  • Way back in March,

  • you might remember a Turkish graduate student at Tufts was approached on the street by ICE agents who took her away screaming.

  • It was unsettling and it was made more so by the fact that those agents were wearing masks,

  • which people pointed out was not normal.

  • But it is normal now.

  • We're seeing this more and more often.

  • Attorney General Pam Bondi was asked about it in a Senate hearing last week and she was kind of like,

  • oh, no kidding, they're wearing masks.

  • And Senator Peters, that's the first time that issue has Come to me about them.

  • You're saying that law enforcement officers, when they cover their faces.

  • Right.

  • But she recovered very quickly and she remembered something.

  • They're being threatened.

  • Their families are being threatened.

  • You know, it's...

  • Again, I get that.

  • But they have to identify themselves as law enforcement.

  • But they don't have to identify themselves and they're not.

  • And why that concern so many people is coming up on Today Explained.

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