White House border czar Tom Homan said Wednesday that banning agents from wearing masks would expose them to people looking to inflict harm.
by RAY LEWIS | The National News DeskWhite House border czar Tom Homan said Wednesday that banning immigration agents from wearing masks would expose them to people looking to inflict harm. officers from wearing face coverings would expose them to people looking to inflict harm.
Congressional Democrats have demanded the Trump administration banHe said that agents hide their identities to protect themselves from threats, some of which are made through doxing, or the malicious release of private information. “You know why we wear a mask, Hakeem?” Homan asked in a question directed to House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries. “It’s because of people like you that vilify the men and women of ICE, compare them to the Nazis and the secret police.” Jeffries and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer have criticized immigration officials but have not associated them with the Nazis. The Trump administration has carried out illegal enforcement operations and terrorized Americans, showing the need for tighter restrictions, the lawmakers say. “Immigration enforcement in this country should be fair, it should be just and it should be humane,” Jeffries said during a speech on Thursday. “But instead, you're unleashing brutality on the American people, using taxpayer dollars, in some instances, to kill American citizens like Renee Nicole Good and Alex Pretti.”US 183 reopening after fatal auto-pedestrian crash in NW Austin shuts down highway The southbound lanes of US 183 are reopening after a driver struck and killed a pedestrian early Friday morning.APD says that the pickup truck struck a pedestriA motorcyclist is dead after a crash in south Austin, and APD says that the crash investigation is delaying detectives from responding to the auto-pedestrian crA man was arrested after he allegedly shot an AR-15 at other vehicles in a Home Depot parking lot in Bastrop Wednesday afternoon, according to police. No injuriA fire destroyed a storage building at a Leander bookstore late Wednesday, burning furniture, tools, books, and inventory just weeks before the store was set toThe Taylor City Council unanimously approved a proposal that paves the way for a new AI data center, known as Project Comal, to be built on more than 200 acres
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