While other government employees sport crisp uniforms and clean-shaven faces, ICE guys are nearing mind-boggling levels of sartorial slop.
Immigration agents flooded U.S. airports this week on a purported mission to help the understaffed Transportation Security Administration units dealing with hourslong security lines during a partial Department of Homeland Security shutdown.
Though the Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers were supposed to speed things along, reports have not identified any beneficial impact of their presence, beyond the occasional distribution of Mostly, the airport ICE agents have been depicted leaning against walls, staring at their phones, and watching beleaguered TSA workers suffer through another day. They exude both intimidation and ineptitude: Their visible weaponry shows them to be capable of unspeakable violence, while their nonchalant bearing suggests they are unconcerned with the appearance of productivity or professional decorum.to wear nicer clothing for their flights, the airport ICE agents are dressing like they were ripped directly out from under their PlayStation controllers. In flannel, hoodies, and beanies, these guys are making no pretense about having important business—or even an official role—at U.S. airports. They’re mugging for cameras indog whistles, the officers look less like a regimented unit of government employees and more like a Confederate reenactor meetup at the local Hardee’s.Unlike most other law enforcement bodies, ICE has no standard uniform and a lax dress code. Sometimes, agents are kitted out in military gear and camouflage, cosplaying as special-ops warriors in Home Depot parking lots. Other times, they’re dressed like average schmucks in wraparound sunglasses and windbreakers, the better to ambush their targets in public places. The officers currently loitering at airports across the country are splitting the difference: They’re wearing bulletproof vests that identify them as ICE agents, but over outfits that look better suited to rotting on the couch with a blunt and a box of Tagalongs than performing a supposedly critical security role. Law enforcement uniforms serve two main purposes. First, they identify wearers as agents of the government. Second, they seek to project authority, thereby engendering respect, or at least compliance. But over the past year, ICE officers havein bunny hats, they hide their faces and badges from a judgmental public, blurring the line between state employee and everyday thug. They call the people they’re ostensibly tasked with protecting “. It’s not that they’re trying and failing to look like upright officers of the law. They’re actively attempting to communicate the exact opposite.Why? Because for all their warfighter posturing, ICE agents get a certain kind of power from seeming like a ragtag layman’s militia. They envision themselves as members of Donald Trump’s personal security force, exempt from the legal and regulatory strictures that—to varying extents—keep other law enforcement units in line. More ideologically driven than the military, more openly hostile than a police department wearing his very own camo hat emblazoned with an American flag patch, plus a ludicrously unkempt goatee? I’m simply asking where he was on Jan. 6, 2021.It Was Supposed to Be the Comeback of a Lifetime for the World’s Biggest Band. What Happened?I Lived Through the Worst Thing That Can Happen to a Parent. Then I Wrote a Comedy Show About It. His was far from the most egregious ICE facial hair on display at American airports this week. Another agent, on duty at Hartsfield-Jackson in Atlanta, sported a redso long it threatened to get caught in his vest. Most police departments require beards to beon their woodland patrols. Those rules don’t apply to ICE; the more slovenly, the better. The fact that the political leaders of this administration’s anti-immigrant agenda are all clean-shaven only highlights the doomsday militia look of its foot soldiers. The point of all this sloppy dress is to make clear that ICE is largely populated not by careermen intent on judicious execution of their duties, but by random MAGA guys with chips on their shoulders. Stationed in the TSA line or on a city streetcorner, they are the menacing tentacles of Trump’s regime, there to taunt passersby with a visual reminder of the president’s unscrupulously wielded power. Sometimes, the job requires a skin fade and
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