Letters: Ban on most officers’ use of masks is right move for state

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Re: “State bans most masks for officers on duty” (Page A1, Sept. 21).

Federal immigration agents want masks to “protect their families.” What about the immigrant families they terrorize? What about the Latino communities the Supreme Court just gave ICE permission to racially profile in Vasquez Perdomo v. Noem, stopped for speaking Spanish, standing on a corner, or simply looking “foreign”? That isn’t public safety. That’s state-sponsored racism.

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Let’s call it what it is: ICE hides behind masks because they know their actions can’t withstand accountability. Police don’t get masks. Judges don’t get masks. Soldiers don’t get masks. Only these agents, empowered by Trump’s mass deportation mach