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Pam Bondi denies knowing Ice agents wore masks during raids despite video evidence (www.theguardian.com)

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Don't believe your eyes; believe what the Party tells you to.

The attorney general, Pam Bondi, professed ignorance of reports of immigration officials hiding their faces with masks during roundups of undocumented people, despite widespread video evidence and reports that they are instilling pervasive fear and panic.

Challenged at a Wednesday Capitol Hill subcommittee hearing by Gary Peters, a Democratic senator for Michigan, Bondi, who as the country’s top law officer has a prominent role in the Trump administration’s hardline immigration policy, implied she was unaware of plain-clothed agents concealing their faces while carrying out arrests but suggested it was for self-protection.

“I do know they are being doxxed … they’re being threatened,” she told Peters. “Their families are being threatened.”

Bondi’s protestations appeared to strain credibility given the attention the masked raids carried out by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) agents have attracted on social media and elsewhere.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Oh, so they're just kidnappers, and we can shoot them?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

ICE would fucking love this type of escalation.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Would they love being stranded because someone disabled their vehicles with thermite and started hunting them?