ICE Masks Just Modern Ku Klux Klan Hoods
Dr. Stacey Patton
July 10, 2025
Donald Trump is barking over a proposed Democratic bill that would bar ICE and Border Patrol agents from wearing masks and covering their badges while on duty.
He’s claiming that Democrats “must hate America” for pushing such a bill. Which is ironic, given that Trump has spent years cheerleading for an American immigration policy that borrows its aesthetics and tactics straight from the Ku Klux Klan, including the convenient use of masks to terrorize the vulnerable while staying anonymous.
But this performative outrage about unmasking isn’t about officer safety or patriotism. It’s about protecting the same tradition of faceless, unaccountable violence that has always marked American repression. Trump knows exactly how powerful a mask can be when you want to terrorize without consequence. His own father was arrested at a Ku Klux Klan rally in Queens in 1927, back when hoods were the uniform of choice for bigots who wanted to raid and lynch with impunity while avoiding responsibility. The hood is the perfect accessory for cowards, and ICE masks are their modern update.
Trump’s real complaint is that unmasking would humanize the victims and implicate the perpetrators. And God forbid we acknowledge that this isn’t some neutral bureaucratic process but an organized racist infliction of suffering on people trying to survive. Trump and his allies want these agents to be able to slap on a mask, break down doors at 3 a.m., haul families away, and go home for dinner with no one knowing their names. They want the terror without the guilt. The hoods may have changed style, but the impulse is exactly the same ...
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