{"id":20391,"date":"2025-11-11T18:24:54","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T18:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=20391"},"modified":"2025-11-11T18:24:59","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T18:24:59","slug":"even-the-fbi-thinks-masked-ice-agents-are-a-bad-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=20391","title":{"rendered":"Even the FBI Thinks Masked ICE Agents Are a Bad Idea"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;&#8221;Criminals posing as US immigration officers have carried out robberies, kidnappings, and sexual assaults in several states, warns a law enforcement bulletin issued last month by the Federal Bureau of Investigation,&#8221; Dell Cameron and Caroline Haskins write at Wired. &#8220;The bulletin cites five 2025 incidents involving fake immigration officers and says criminals are using Immigration and Custom Enforcement&#8217;s heightened profile to target vulnerable communities, making it harder for Americans to distinguish between lawful officers and imposters while eroding trust in law enforcement.&#8221;&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2025\/11\/07\/even-the-fbi-thinks-masked-ice-agents-are-a-bad-idea\">https:\/\/reason.com\/2025\/11\/07\/even-the-fbi-thinks-masked-ice-agents-are-a-bad-idea<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;&#8221;Criminals posing as US immigration officers have carried out robberies, kidnappings, and sexual assaults in several states, warns a law enforcement bulletin issued last month by the Federal Bureau of Investigation,&#8221; Dell Cameron and Caroline Haskins write at Wired. &#8220;The bulletin cites five 2025 incidents involving fake immigration officers and says criminals are using Immigration and Custom Enforcement&#8217;s heightened profile to target vulnerable communities, making it harder for Americans to distinguish between lawful officers and imposters while eroding trust in law enforcement.&#8221;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/reason.com\/2025\/11\/07\/even-the-fbi-thinks-masked-ice-agents-are-a-bad-idea\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[280,2108,838,33,844,26,493,25,596],"class_list":["post-20391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-criminal-justice","tag-deport","tag-deportation","tag-fbi","tag-ice","tag-illegal-immigration","tag-immigrants","tag-immigration","tag-masks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20391"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20393,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20391\/revisions\/20393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}