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Ever since the Trump immigration raids began in Los Angeles in June, local leaders and community activists have criticized agents for sometimes making it difficult to identify them as federal law enforcement officials or refusing to identify themselves at all.

Now, an unexpected new group has expressed its own concerns: the FBI.

Citing a string of incidents in which masked criminals posing as immigration officers robbed and kidnapped victims, the FBI recently issued a memo suggesting agents clearly identify themselves while they’re in the field.

The FBI explained its reasoning in a three-page document sent to police agencies across the country last month.

In the memo, the FBI say

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