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whenever they have masks on. I find that odd. But more so the doxing issue. That's very real. And it's very real in so much as it's not just the agent. It's the agent's family who are in jeopardy. That's interesting to me. I side with John Fetterman with a caveat with an asterisk. Well, one, the biggest thing is this. It's not illegal. It's perfectly okay and within uniform code for them to be able to wear those masks. If it was illegal and they were doing something illegal, then it would be an issue and it's just not. I think for everybody's safety or as safe as you can make something like this, I think that they should wear masks, but they should also all wear body cameras. Now, I don't know what the backlog is or how quickly they can all get body cameras and wear them. And I don't think that that should uproot what's happening with carrying out their duties. Like, I don't think they should say, well, wait a minute. We can't get body cameras for all these people. So we're going to stop all their details right now until they come in and it's going to take six weeks or two months or three years for all those cameras to come in. I don't think that should happen. But I think there should be an honest-to-goodness effort. if not, you know, practically make it happen for as many as possible, if not all, to have body cameras. And those body cameras should be things where a sunshine law, you should be able to obtain what happened on those. Because that I think would maybe, at least it would make, for me, and I'm fine with many of their duties, if not all. But it should make people feel.

comfortable if they knew what was happening. But this doxing stuff is very real. And the people that are screaming the most against federal agents wearing masks, I don't understand why. If they identify themselves, if they are carrying out the duties to make our streets and our country and everything else safer, what's the issue? Because here's the thing. It's not a cart before the horse situation. Federal agents have already been doxed. People have tried to get their identity before they've made arrests. And I'm going to tell you exactly how and why in that I'm not making it up. These protesters have cracked the code and figured it out and somehow have a database of license plates and identities and these agents' names. So how do they delineate or know who's made what arrest or any arrest? Or who has gone after this crook or that crook or the other crook? Or what agent has made zero arrests? But nonetheless, if their name comes up because they've run a license play to run a name, they feel the need to harass them just the same. It could be an ICE agent that shot somebody in a work-related shooting or somebody who's their first day on the job and they've not even made one arrest. But when it becomes to where those people get a hold of that, they're going to harass them just the same. So why wouldn't they want a condition of anonymity? Why wouldn't they want to be able to wear masks? It only makes them safer, their family's safer, our community safer. And if that doesn't happen, there may not be anybody willing to do the job. And that seems to be what a certain faction of people in this country want. And they, some kind of admit it, nobody really comes out and admits it in totality. But many of these people just won't rest until there's zero immigration enforcement. And that's kind of where they're going with it. But they don't come out and say it. They say, well, take your mask off. Well, do this. Well, do that. Well, there's not enough training. Well, really their end game is zero immigration enforcement. Abolish ICE. F. Ice. Again. It gets back to wanting zero immigration enforcement. And in a civilized society, in a country with borders, that's just not on the table. They don't come up with as much as they champion immigration reform or reform with ICE. They don't come up with any solutions. It's a zero-sum game. They want it done. They want it finished. They want it abolished. They want these guys 100% exposed. That's just not going to happen. Nor should it, because their behavior, the protesters and the doctors, have been intolerable to this point. I'm Paul Alexander, news brought to you by PJ.

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