What Next - Why Is ICE Masked Up?
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🗓️ 30 June 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
ICE agents have begun concealing their identities in masks and plainclothes while making arrests. Experts—including a former ICE official—say that endangers those agents, and violates the trust between law enforcement and the citizenry.
Guests:
Philip Bump, columnist for the Washington Post
Scott Shuchart, ICE’s Assistant Director for Regulatory Affairs and Policy Counselor to the Director, 2022–2025.
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