There’s No Easy Way to Unmask ICE Agents: Stephen L. Carter

I don’t quite see the endgame in the increasing calls for state and local action to unmask federal immigration officers. Yes, I’m as disturbed as most people by the images of ICE agents, faces covered, loading individuals into their vans — people who might or might not be in the country illegally, especially since we know that many of them won’t receive much in the way of due process. But to imagine that a new municipal ordinance or state statute can alter this situation is a fantasy — potentially a dangerous one.

First, I don’t think an individual state has the ...