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WATCH: Hakeem Jeffries Threatens Vows To Dox ICE Agents As Death Threats Rise
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) threatened to publicly identify masked Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents who have been carrying out nationwide deportation operations.
White House border czar Tom Homan has repeatedly stressed that many ICE agents wear masks during immigration raids due to deaths threats levied against themselves and their families.
“Yeah, the assaults on ICE officers are high. The doxing of ICE officers are at an all-time high. And people always complain, some of you here, say why are they wearing masks? Because they’re trying to protect themselves and their families,” Homan told reporters last week. “They’ve got a dangerous job to do, and they’re being doxed every day across this country. I’ve experienced myself a hundred times,” he added.
Jeffries appears undeterred by the rising threats and acts of violence against ICE, however, as he vowed to unmask all federal immigration agents in a press conference Thursday. “Every single ICE agent who’s engaged in this aggressive overreach and are trying to hide their identities from the American people will be unsuccessful in doing that,” the House minority leader said.
Jeffries — an ardent supporter of the years-long hunt to arrest non-violent January 6 protesters — compared ICE agents to the Gestapo and NKVD agents in the Soviet Union.
“This is not the 1930’s. And every single one of them, no matter what it takes, no matter how long it takes, will of course be identified. That in fact is the law. And we’re going to make sure that the American people have the transparency necessary to hold people accountable.”
He went on to list the the arrest of Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-NJ), who was caught on video elbowing and shoving federal agents when she and a handful of her colleagues stormed an ICE facility last month, as an example of this “overreach.”
“And we’ve got to address those issues first. That’s the human thing to do, while simultaneously, of course, preparing to deal with the broader policy implications, which as I mentioned, are underway,” Jeffries told reporters.
Jeffries’ threat comes just a day after a man threatened to kill ICE agents who were conducting an immigration operation in Philadelphia.
“You know what, when people start fighting back, then what y’all gonna do? Y’all gonna shoot every American? When we start fighting back, what y’all gonna do?” the currently unidentified man can be heard shouting.
“Y’all gonna shoot Americans then? Because that’s what we’re gonna start doing. We’re gonna start fighting back. That’s what we’re gonna start doing, fighting back. God damn shame, all y’all should put a bullet in y’all heads. Doing Trump’s work, every single one of y’all put a bullet in your head. Yeah, I said it, what?”
