‘What Are You Afraid Of?’: Gavin Newsom Mocks ICE Agents For Wearing Masks

Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom claimed on Monday that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are wearing masks in order to inspire fear.

ICE agents’ family members have recently faced “doxing,” a term that entails spreading personal information, including where people live and their contact information, according to a Friday Department of Homeland Security press release. Yet Newsom, on “mitú Daily,” questioned the need for ICE agents to wear masks and what they were fearful about.

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“Why are they masked? What are you afraid of?” Newsom asked. “If they’re doing your job … It’s to increase stress, it’s to increase anxiety … masked men, disproportionately men, in unmarked cars without identifying themselves, or at least difficult to even identify, from all of these multi-letter agencies that — even if you’re in the business of government — you don’t even understand what half of these agencies do and who they are.”

“And you’re being quite literally thrown in the back of a car, whether you’re a citizen or not, and they’ll figure it out later. That’s not America. That’s not what our founding fathers lived and died for,” he continued. “And so I get it. I get going after people that are criminals. I do. I understand — dangerous and violent people — no one wants dangerous and violent people. But that’s not what this is about.”

Border czar Tom Homan also told reporters during a May 30