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To: Colorado Springs City Council
ICE agents must show their face and identification!
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Colorado Springs City Council must act immediately to pass a local ordinance requiring all law enforcement personnel—especially federal agents—operating within city limits to wear visible identification. This ordinance should mandate that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents:
· 🚫 Do not wear masks or any face coverings during detentions or arrests.
· 🛡️ Clearly identify their specific DHS component, such as ICE or Customs and Border Protection (CBP).
· 👮♂️ Display official insignia or uniforms in a way that is plainly visible to bystanders.
While ICE asserts that face coverings are necessary for officer safety, operating anonymously undermines public trust. When agents appear masked and unidentified, people vanish from our neighborhoods without explanation. That isn’t safety—it’s fear. Coloradans deserve better. No one should live in fear of government operations that lack transparency or accountability.
Why is this important?
Colorado Springs must take urgent steps to respond to the rise in masked law enforcement, ICE overreach, and the targeting of immigrants and political dissenters, including students and lawful residents.
In a February 5th raid of four apartments in Denver and Aurora, ICE destroyed a tenant’s door, ripping the locks off the door handle, entered without a warrant, shot rubber bullets at tenants in their pursuit — terrorizing the entire neighborhood. ICE is striking fear in the community to justify mass arrests and using local police and the DEA to give cover to a federal deportation agenda.
On March 17th, Jeanette Vizguerra—recognized by Time Magazine in 2017 as one of the world's 100 most influential people and known for having no criminal record—was working at a Target store in Denver. As she stepped outside for her first break, she was detained. Vizguerra's vocal advocacy for immigrant rights made her a target, and her experience underscores how those who speak out for justice can face intimidation and efforts to silence them.
On June 27th, 32-year-old U.S. citizen, Andrea Velez, was confronted and forcibly taken by armed, masked individuals in Los Angeles. Her family, fearing a kidnapping, contacted the police—only to discover that the men involved were federal immigration agents. These secretive detentions erode public trust and silence dissent.
Every person—citizen or not—deserves to know who is detaining them, and why. The rise of secret policing and disappearances is not just a federal issue; it’s a local emergency. Our city should be a place of safety, not surveillance and fear.
Every person—citizen or not—deserves to know who is detaining them, and why. The rise of secret policing and disappearances is not just a federal issue; it’s a local emergency. Our city should be a place of safety, not surveillance and fear.