The Doxxing That Hasn't Happened
The Department of Homeland Security has cited doxxing of ICE agents and rising assaults as the public rationale for permitting agents to operate while masked; according to DHS's own press releases, no ICE agent has been doxxed or assaulted in connection with this rationale since the start of the second Trump administration.
Since early 2025, the Department of Homeland Security has cited two threats — doxxing of officers and a spike in physical assaults — as the public rationale for permitting Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to operate while masked. Masking conceals identity and accountability. Conventional law-enforcement practice in the United States is the opposite, on the principle that the public grants police the right to detain and use force in exchange for visible, identifiable accountability.
Examination of DHS’s own press releases over the period in question turned up no agent who had been doxxed in connection with the cited rationale, and no incident of doxxing-led assault. The department’s stated reason for masking has not, by its own public record, occurred. The masking continues.