SABRINA TAVERNISE

New York Times

One of the defining images of President Trump's second term so far has been security officers in masks. Whether detaining a Turkish student on the street in Boston, raiding Home Depot parking lots in Los Angeles or, now, arresting immigrants on the streets of the capital, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers in tactical gear and with their faces obscured have become a strange new national pageant.

The Department of Homeland Security says that in an era of extreme polarization and rising political violence, masks are necessary. "ICE officers wear a mask because they've been doxxed by the thousands," Tom Homan, Trump's border czar, told The New York Times' "The Daily" podcast. "Their families have been doxxed. ICE officers' pictures show up on tree

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