he called testimony from ICE’s acting director, Todd Lyons, about agents’ purported need to wear masks “disingenuous, squalid and dishonorable. ICE goes masked for a single reason — to terrorize Americans into quiescence.”

“To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan,” he wrote. “In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police.”