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The Department of Homeland Security took more rhetorical fire this week from the left over its “mass deportation operation” enforcement of immigration laws, and growing numbers of detainees in federal installations.
In Pennsylvania, lawmakers and advocates came together to back a new state bill that would ban law enforcement from obscuring their identity – as many ICE officers wear masks to protect themselves from being doxxed – where a union boss accused ICE of “disappearing innocent people.”
“I frankly have been horrified by the conduct of these federal agents as has been reported in the media,” said AFL-CIO Philadelphia Council President Danny Bauder.
Bauder, flanked by state Sen. Nikil Saval, D-Center City, and Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner, went on to accuse ICE of acting like a famous mob informant from an Al Pacino film.
ILLINOIS DEMOCRATS TELL FEDS TO STOP TRYING TO ‘USURP’ STATE AUTHORITY OVER IMMIGRATION
Border Patrol, left, Al Pacino, right (Getty)
“I want to be very clear: kidnapping and disappearing innocent people is disgusting, it’s shameful, it’s un-American, and any claims to the contrary are absurd,” he said Thursday outside ICE’s office in Chinatown.
“There is no good reason why a public servant would ever have to obscure or hide their identity while working in uniform. These ICE agents are not Donnie Brasco in some sort of deep cover situation to take down this enormous organized crime gang.”
“These are people who are engaged in violent, warrantless kidnapping and detention, and they need to be held accountable for their actions,” Bauder said.
Saval, sponsor of the “No Secret Police” bill in the Republican-controlled Senate, characterized ICE operations as “heavily-armed, masked, unidentifiable individuals roaming our public spaces … disappearing our neighbors … and violat[ing] basic vital rights.”
State Sen. Amanda Cappelletti, D-Norristown, added that ICE has “actively…
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