Remember — this was barely a week ago — when Democrats were in full meltdown mode over the DHS portion of the funding bill?
Among the pile of bad ideas they floated, there was exactly one proposal that wasn’t absurd: putting body cameras on ICE agents. Accountability cuts both ways, and on that narrow point, they were right. So the Department of Homeland Security didn’t resist, stall, or posture. It was agreed immediately.
And yet, that didn’t stop the theatrics.
Cue Chuck Schumer, solemnly lecturing the country about how vital body cameras are — while simultaneously attacking Kristi Noem:
This guy. Anyway…
And that’s when the script flipped.
The moment the Department of Homeland Security said it would immediately deploy body cameras, Democrats suddenly discovered a new problem. Transparency, it turns out, was only acceptable in theory:
A push to put body cameras on all ICE agents has Democrats running headlong into a new problem: fear that the technology will provide another avenue for mass surveillance of protesters.
Congressional Democratic leaders have made universal use of body cameras one of their prime demands for imposing accountability on Immigration and Customs Enforcement, especially after federal agents fatally shot two American citizens in Minneapolis. But after an outcry from privacy advocates that surveillance tools will allow ICE agents to identify and track protesters, Democrats are also calling for restrictions on how the body cameras can be used.
Lawmakers and legal observers have accused ICE of leveraging a variety of cameras to surveil protesters, feeding pictures into license plate readers and facial recognition systems. Democrats now worry that the body cameras they’re demanding could be used for similar purposes.
Funny how fast the tune changed.
Just days after demanding body cameras, Democrats are suddenly warning about “mass surveillance.” Same policy. Same cameras. Different panic. The translation is obvious: the footage isn’t going to help them sell their fairy tale about “mostly peaceful protesters.”
Body cams won’t just record agents — they’ll document the harassment, obstruction, and outright attacks aimed at Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other federal officers. They’ll show who’s escalating, who’s lying, and who’s been banking on the absence of evidence to control the narrative.
So of course, Democrats now want to change the rules – again – as though they are the majority in Congress:
This is exactly why the body-cam footage matters.
In the Renee Good case, we have the ICE agent’s video — and because of it, we can see the encounter from his point of view. We can see what he was dealing with in real time. Even with that evidence, the Left is still twisting itself into knots trying to spin the story. Now imagine how much easier that spin job would’ve been if the footage didn’t exist at all.
Without cameras, they would’ve owned the narrative outright.
And let’s be honest about what’s really driving the sudden panic. Yes — body cams are going to lead to more arrests, including of left-wing activists, because the cameras will capture what people are actually doing, not what Twitter claims they were doing. Video doesn’t care about slogans. It shows who crossed the line and who didn’t.
But let’s be honest. Democrats don’t really want transparency, do they?