Mike Johnson Offers Bizarre Justification For ICE Masks. Backlash Follows.

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Mike Johnson Offers Bizarre Justification For ICE Masks. Backlash Follows.

Critics spotted a grand irony in the House speaker's remarks.

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Source : Mike Johnson Offers Bizarre Justification For ICE Masks. Backlash Follows.

Mike Johnson Offers Bizarre Justification For ICE Masks. Backlash Follows.​

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) faced criticism after he defended the wearing of masks by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents during immigration raids.

Johnson was asked on Fox News to respond to concerns from Democrats who say ICE agents shouldn’t conceal their identities while conducting arrests as part of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.
“From the people who mandated mask-wearing for years in America, it’s absurd,” Johnson fired back, referencing the face-covering measures that were initially adopted with bipartisan support during the early months of the coronavirus pandemic, though Democrats continued to encourage them for a longer period.
“They need to back off of ICE and respect our agents and stop protesting against them,” he added, arguing that agents would be doxed if they were able to be identified.

Critics pointed out the irony of Johnson’s acceptance of agents wearing masks, given his history of opposing mask mandates for medical reasons, and suggested he had conjured up an extreme example of false equivalence.

Agents should be able to be held accountable, they argued.

Using @MikeJohnson’s logic, every police officer should be masked and unidentified when doing their job, for fear of being “doxed.” https://t.co/0IMICl28gr

— sammi (@sammiesingstuff) June 7, 2025​

The people wearing masks to protect themselves and others from COVID weren’t arresting people or depriving them of certain rights.

There’s a level of accountability that comes with being a law officer. https://t.co/DhM38WDeaq

— Mike O'Rourke (@MikeORourkenews) June 6, 2025​

Yet another example of how these evil individuals are gradually destroying our precious democracy. #MikeJohnson https://t.co/L7BjNm6tY3

— Daniel Morcate (@dmorca) June 6, 2025​

Johnson was also criticized over the weekend for dismissing concerns about Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s talk of active-duty Marines being sent to handle protests against immigration enforcement in Los Angeles.

“I don’t think that’s heavy-handed,” Johnson said.

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Commented on Mon Jun 9 15:38:17 2025 UTC

MIKE JOHNSON: From the people who mandated mask wearing for years in America, it's absurd. They need to back off ICE and respect our agents.

The false equivalence of this is what is absurd, Mike.

Q: So you're okay with these agents not identifying themselves when they're arresting migrants?

JOHNSON: Why, so they can target them? So they can put their names and faces online and dox them?

They are federal servants. We have the right to know who is arresting people in our streets you fukking donut. That is not doxxing. Republicans are desperate to be victims in every situation.

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│ For starters, it's pretty hard to answer "is this person even a real federal agent" without "doxxing," at least to the level of having visible badge numbers.
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│ If some random people in plainclothes grab you and try to shove you into a van, you're supposed to comply just in case it turns out that was a legal arrest?
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│ │ Commented on Mon Jun 9 17:02:27 2025 UTC
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│ │ I guarantee that some people have been taken by people acting like ICE and using the chaos to get back at people.
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│ │ │ Commented on Mon Jun 9 17:29:28 2025 UTC
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│ │ │ It’s already happened
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│ │ │ Florida woman accused of impersonating ICE agent to kidnap ex-boyfriend's wife
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│ │ │ Authorities arrested Latrance Battle and charged her with kidnapping, falsely impersonating an officer while committing a felony and robbery, the Bay County Sheriff's Office said in an April 21 news release.
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│ │ │ There are also hundreds of schemes where someone calls a target and pretends to be ICE and asking for money.
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[David_TheMan]

Mike Johnson is a slimmy Israeli controlled piece of shyt

 

[MajesticLion]

Self-serving attempts at rhetoric lead them down some very silly dead-end paths.

 

[feelosofer]

Because secret police are secret

But in all seriousness ICE as had accountability issues from its inception while the Republicans have been spearheading this, this has been a blind spot on the part of the Democrats.

 

[Peruvian Connect]

I don't see the issue. Cops been doing it for years. Covid has made this BS normal now. People wearing mask eevrywhere. Even to work in a factory,


I see people saying they are vigilante, or deputized race warriors etc. But how does a mask, no mask change that after they done alreadyy snacthed up the people?

 

[beenz]

is he a moron? there is no comparison to wearing a mask due to a global pandemic vs wearing a mask in order to conceal one's identity while they round up people without due process

 

[CP3.]

American conservatives in a nutshell right here.

Wearing masks to help prevent the spread of a deadly virus? Lame.

Wearing masks to hide your identity while you kidnap people? Awesome!

Scum.

 

[Dameon Farrow]

He was able to speak with Trump's mushroom down his throat??!!!

Anyway that's a typical dogwhistle to the base. Uneducated base.

 

[BaggerofTea]

I'm waiting for the day they think they can pull up black Americans with this foolishness.

These ice clowns will get exactly what they are looking for and more

 

[Strapped]

Dude is evil

 

[skokiaan]

I'm waiting for the day they think they can pull up black Americans with this foolishness.

These ice clowns will get exactly what they are looking for and more

what will happen thats not been happening for years n years?

 

[BaggerofTea]

what will happen thats not been happening for years n years?

Whites only learn when they know you will lay them in the ground with HASTE

 

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1/11
@Fry_C00ked
comments full of conservatives who didn't get the joke lmao you love to see it

[Quoted tweet]
Yankees stadium offering free hot dogs to ICE Agents.

A small gesture from New York, served with mustard.

2/11
@RazorSharpShork
This one doing numbers Fry



3/11
@Fry_C00ked
oh ffs



4/11
@NightyBat
What is the joke?



5/11
@Fry_C00ked
that ICE agents are a bunch of cowards and will do anything in their power to avoid being identified



6/11
@Imposter_Edits
I'm disappointed it took me seeing this post and thinking about it for a min to get it.



7/11
@General_Raptor
Oh because hot dogs are made of pork…



8/11
@inmypurpose29
Because ICE agents eat glizzy



9/11
@theonetimfrom91
It just wasn’t funny



10/11
@shogglastresort
This is the equivalent of a 5-year-old running up to you and saying some nonsense and running away laughing like they made the funniest joke in the world, and it takes you like 10 seconds to realize what they were trying to say was meant to be a joke.



11/11
@J_Jammer
NYC likes riots.




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