Republican Florida Rep. Anna Paulina Luna appeared on Fox News Tuesday to call out Democrats who use U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents as an excuse to “race bait.”
Luna, on “Jesse Watters Primetime,” said the majority of ICE agents are Hispanic.
Democrats have pushed back against ICE agents, who have conducted raids and detained illegal migrants nationwide. A handful of lawmakers and officials were arrested and charged for allegedly retaliating. Democrats now want to ban federal agents from wearing masks. Watters, referring to COVID-19 mask mandates, told Luna how Democrats now want masks off “for the first time in six years.”
“Yes, exactly to your point. These are the same Democrat politicians that force people to wear masks, otherwise they couldn’t see their loved ones passing away in hospitals or getting married. I think it’s completely hypocritical,” Luna said. “But, look, the same Democrat politicians that are trying to say that ICE is all Anglo-Americans, they’re completely false.”
On Tuesday, Democrat California State Sen. Scott Wiener introduced legislation seeking to ban law enforcement from covering their faces when working in public, along with requiring them to wear identifying information. The push from Democrats to crack down on agents comes as the Trump administration has ramped up ICE raids in sanctuary cities throughout the United States.
In footage from some of the arrests, agents can be seen wearing masks. This, after border czar Tom Homan said assaults and doxing against these federal employees are ramping up.