House Speaker Johnson: DEMS who want IJs agents, exposed ‘Mandated Mask Wear for years’ during Covid

House speaker Mike Johnson told Fox News on Friday that Democrats who insist on ice officers to expose themselves the same “people wearing the mask that bears for years in America” ​​during the coronavirus pandemie.

Johnson was asked by Fox News for his reaction as “some Democrats, including [House Minority] Leader [Hakeem] Jeffries, have suggested that the ice officers who arrest some of these migrants should not wear masks. ”

“Of the people who had to wear the mask in America for years. It is absurd. They have to retreat from ice and respect our agents and stop protesting against them,” said Johnson. “They try to maintain the rule of law and they don’t want to be the target of democrat activists. So I am for the protocol.”

Jeffries said on Tuesday that IJs agents try to ‘hide their identities from the American people, will not be successful’ and that will all be identified ” regardless of what is needed, regardless of how long it will take ‘.

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Johnson was then asked on Friday: “So these agents are doing well who do not identify themselves when they arrest migrants?”

“Why? So that they can focus?” He responded. “So that they can place their names and faces online and they can do? That is what these activists do. So we have to protect those who protect our communities.

“And it is absurd for everyone, members of the congress or another chosen leader, to call ice because they try to do their work. They have made it difficult for them to do it for years, and I think it is absurd,” Johnson said too.

During his weekly press conference on Friday, FOX News asked Jeffries if he was worried that it is possible to demase some ice officers or endanger the safety of their families.

“It seems to me that the officials of the Department of Homeland Security, including ICE, must be kept at the same standards as any other part of law enforcement in terms of transparency,” said the Democrat from New York.

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Mayor Michelle Wu van Boston recently spoke against ice officers who wear masks. (Irfan Khan/Los Angeles Times via Getty images and Adam Glanzman/Bloomberg via Getty images)

On the official X account of Jeffries, in September 2020, He written “It’s not that complicated. Wear. A. Mask.”

Then about a year later, in August 2021, Said Jeffries “Get vaccinated. Wear a mask. Crush the virus.”

Two democratic senators from Virginia, Mark Warner and Tim Kaine, also wrote a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi last month, acting Ice director Todd Lyons and other top officials about Ice’s recent immigration enforcement operations that took an “alarming and dangerous turn.”

“Throughout the country and in Virginia, masked ice officers and agents have without clearly visible identification as law enforcement have arrested individuals on the street and at sensitive locations, such as court houses. Such actions have endangered everyone – the targeted individuals, the ice officers and agents and bystanders, they say, say, say, say, say, say, say, say, say, say” say “say” say “say” say “say” say “say” say “say wrongly,” say “say” say “say” say “they say wrongly.

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Ice officers are arrested last month in Lynn, Massachusetts. (ICE )

“We recommend that ICE officers and agents immediately and clearly identify themselves as law enforcement officers who perform law enforcement actions in arresting topics, and to limit facial lecture during arrests and other enforcement actions to prevent intimidation and to reduce the safety risks for the audience.

In August 2021, Kaine also pushed the mask, Writing in a Facebook message That he was “deeply worried about the rapid rise of COVID-19 Delta variant infections that we see in the Commonwealth” and that “we have to do everything we can to stop the spread of the virus and keep ourselves and our loved ones safe, including following CDC guidance such as getting vaccinated, within Masking and distance.”

“People, let’s continue to protect ourselves by being vaccinated, masking and doing social distance, so that we can safely return to all the activities we love,” Warner added At that time.

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Representatives of Jeffries, Kaine and Warner did not immediately respond to requests for comments from Fox News Digital on Friday.

Fox News’ Chad Pergram, Tyler Olson and Alex Nitzberg contributed to this report.