Nobody wants to be a target.
That’s apparently the thinking of Senate Majority Leader Jack Johnson, R-Franklin, in sponsoring a bill in the Tennessee legislature that would conceal the names of all law enforcement officers involved in immigration enforcement.
Citizens are free to have all manner of opinion they want about the removal of illegal immigrants from the country, but they should in no way inhibit or hurt United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers hired for and tasked with that duty.
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Yet the media hardly goes a day without a story about protesters harassing and sometimes injuring ICE agents.