Michigan Democratic Sen. Elissa Slotkin wants to expose federal immigration agents at a time when attacks on Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are up 700%.
Slotkin, D-Holly, introduced the Visible Identification Standards for Immigration-Based Law Enforcement Act of 2025 last week alongside Sens. Cory Booker, D-N.J., and Alex Padilla, D-Calif.
The legislation would require all immigration officials, including deputized state or local officers, to clearly display legible identification – including name or badge number – that’s not obscured by tactical gear or clothing, WLNS reports.
The VISIBLE Act would also ban non-medical face coverings during enforcement operations, though it includes exceptions for environmental hazards or “covert operations.”
The bill has 10 Democratic co-sponsors, including Michigan U.S. Sen. Gary Peters, D-Bloomfield Twp., according to Michigan Advance.
“Law enforcement should be required to identify that they’re law enforcement while enforcing our immigration laws,” Slotkin said in a statement. “In recent months, we have seen police, wearing hoodies and masks, make arrests that look ore like kidnappings in an authoritarian country.
“With a growing number of reports of individuals impersonating ICE officers in recent months, this measure is more important than ever – not just for our national security but for the safety of border states like Michigan,” she said. “These basics protect officers and the public, promote transparency, and build trust with law enforcement.”
They also expose immigration agents who face unprecedented attacks amid the largest deportation effort in U.S. history, initiated as promised by the 47th POTUS on the first day of his second term.
Slotkin introduced the legislation just four days after ICE agents were ambushed on Independence Day at the Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado, Texas, where “a heavily armed group lured two unarmed ICE agents into a parking lot … by firing a barrage of fireworks at their door and spray-painting graffiti on their personal cars with the words ‘traitor’ and ‘Ice Pig,’ which agents could see from the cameras inside,” Fox News reports.
Agents called 911 around the same time to report two men firing rounds from a nearby tree line, and an officer was hit in the neck. Police later found seven suspects with weapons, vests and radios who attempted to escape on food, according to the news site.
Days later, on July 7, U.S. Border Patrol killed a Michigan man who fired dozens of rounds at the entrance of a Border Patrol station in McAllen, Texas, according to the Texas Tribune.
One McAllen police officer was shot in the knee during the exchange, while another officer and border patrol agent sustained injuries, all from bullets that penetrated the building, McAllen Police Chief Victor Rodriguez told the news site.
The shooter was identified as 27-year-old Ludington resident Ryan Louis Mosqueda, who was reported missing by his father in Weslaco, Texas, hours before the shooting.
Responding officers located additional firearms and ammunition in Mosqueda’s Chevrolet passenger car, which was parked outside of the border patrol facility, Rodriguez said.
In Portland, criminals and Antifa-affiliated groups are doxxing the personal information of ICE officers in Oregon to reveal their identities and those of their families and children, a situation the Department of Homeland Security contends “put our law enforcement in grave danger as highly sophisticated gangs like Tren de Aragua and MS-13, criminal rings, murderers, and rapists can use this information to carry out attacks on federal law enforcement and their families.”
The doxxing involved posters in Portland neighborhoods that included agent names, pictures, addresses, and pictures with their families, along with messages like “NO PEACE FOR ICE” and “CHINGA LA MIGEA,” which translates to “F**k immigration services,” according to DHS.
“We will prosecute those who dox ICE agents to the fullest extent of the law. These criminals are taking the side of vicious cartels and human traffickers,” DHS Secretary Kristi Noem said in a statement. “We won’t allow it in America.”
Last week, protesters clashed with federal immigration officials as they raided a marijuana farm in southern California, where someone wearing a mask fired a pistol at ICE agents, ABC News reports.
“FBI has issued a $50,000 award for information leading to the conviction of an Unknown Subject who appeared to fire a pistol at Federal Law Enforcement Officers near Camarillo,” U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli posted to X.
FBI has issued a $50,000 award for information leading to the conviction of an Unknown Subject who appeared to fire a pistol at Federal Law Enforcement Officers near Camarillo. The shooting occurred on 7/10/25 at approximately 2:26pm on Laguna Rd between Wood Rd and Las Posas Rd.… pic.twitter.com/XG94sTQEVR
— U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli (@USAttyEssayli) July 11, 2025
At least 10 juveniles, eight unaccompanied and one as young as 14, were working at the marijuana facility, according to CBP Commissioner Rodney Scott.
Noem told the media at a press conference in Tampa on Saturday that attacks on federal immigration officials are up nearly 700% from 2024, going from 10 assaults through June 30 to 79 assaults in 2025, WPEC reports.
“Violence is anything that threatens them and their safety, so it is doxing them, it’s videotaping them where they’re at when they’re out on operations, encouraging other people to come and to throw things, rocks, bottles,” Noem said. “We’ve seen Molotov cocktails thrown at them.”
