Assaults on Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have skyrocketed, leaving one officer fearing for his family’s safety. From January to June 2024, the Department of Homeland Security reported a 690% surge in attacks compared to the previous year, with 10 incidents recorded in that period alone.
Fox News reported that a proposed Democratic bill demanding agents remove masks during operations has only heightened tensions. Since President Trump’s inauguration in 2025, 79 assaults on ICE agents have been documented through July 7, 2025.
This alarming trend reflects growing hostility toward immigration enforcement, fueled by protests and political pushback in Democrat-led sanctuary cities. The special agent, speaking anonymously to Fox News Digital, warned that unmasking agents could lead to doxxing, endangering their families.
In Democrat-run areas, agents face near-daily harassment, with protesters filming them, snapping license plate photos, and trailing them before operations even start.
“Almost daily there’s some kind of protest or group calling out agents,” the agent said. Such tactics, he argued, disrupt missions and embolden resistance to lawful deportations.
Rising Protests Disrupt ICE Operations
Protests have grown bolder, with one anti-ICE demonstration in Los Angeles on June 8, 2025, featuring a protester waving a Mexican flag near a burning Waymo vehicle.
The agent noted that such scenes give undocumented migrants “false hope” of evading arrest by resisting. This rhetoric, he said, misleads vulnerable communities and escalates confrontations.
“They’re telling them, ‘If you fight this, you might win,’” the agent remarked, calling such advice dangerously misleading. On June 19, 2025, residents in Bell, California, surrounded federal agents during a raid on Atlantic Boulevard, further complicating enforcement efforts. These incidents highlight the growing challenges ICE faces in hostile environments.
When protests make operations untenable, ICE agents often relocate to less contentious areas. “If people come out, and it creates more of a problem, we just go somewhere else,” the agent explained. With no shortage of enforcement targets, this flexibility allows ICE to sidestep chaos but underscores the impact of organized resistance.
The No Masks for ICE Act, introduced by Rep. Nydia Velázquez in June 2025, seeks to ban face coverings for ICE agents during enforcement actions.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries doubled down, vowing in June 2025 to identify agents “no matter what it takes.” This push for transparency, the agent argued, ignores the real threat of doxxing and retaliation against agents’ families.
“What value do you get from taking masks off federal agents afraid of getting doxxed?” the agent asked pointedly. He suggested Jeffries would bear responsibility for any harm to agents or their loved ones if the bill passes. Such rhetoric from Democratic leaders, he implied, fuels the very violence they claim to oppose.
Jeffries’ claim that agents hiding their identities will be exposed reeks of political posturing, not public safety. “Immigration enforcement officials wouldn’t wear masks if they didn’t care about their families,” the agent countered. Forcing agents to unmask in volatile settings seems less about accountability and more about appeasing progressive activists.
Agents’ Community Roles at Risk
Many ICE agents lead double lives as community pillars—coaching baseball, volunteering at churches, or mentoring Girl Scouts.
“The last thing these people want is some angry agitator showing up at a baseball game,” the agent said. Doxxing threatens not just their safety but their ability to serve quietly in their neighborhoods.
The agent expressed cautious faith in the administration’s ability to protect officers, saying, “The agency will do their best to protect us.” But he warned that escalating protests and policies like the No Masks for ICE Act could stretch those protections thin. The stakes, he emphasized, extend beyond the agents to their families and communities.
In sanctuary cities, protesters’ tactics—filming agents, tracking vehicles, and disrupting operations—have become routine. The agent described how these groups often act before missions even begin, forcing ICE to rethink strategies at places like police stations. This preemptive harassment, he argued, undermines law enforcement’s effectiveness.
Democratic leaders’ calls to unmask agents align with a broader progressive agenda that often vilifies immigration enforcement.
Jeffries’ June 2025 pledge to identify agents “no matter how long it takes” sounds more like a threat than a policy proposal. Such language, the agent suggested, only emboldens protesters and escalates risks for those enforcing the law.
The surge in assaults—likely underreported due to the rapid pace of incidents—signals a troubling trend. “We’re not short on targets,” the agent noted, explaining ICE’s ability to pivot to new areas when protests intensify. Yet this adaptability doesn’t erase the toll of constant harassment and the looming threat of doxxing.
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Author: Benjamin Clark
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