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As ICE Agents Hide Their Faces, ICE Attorneys Are Hiding Their Names in Immigration Courts

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Immigration

Autumn Billings | 7.17.2025 4:58 PM

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has faced criticisms recently for agents wearing masks to conceal their identities while making immigration-related arrests. Now, immigration judges are withholding the names of lawyers representing ICE from public record, The Intercept revealed this week. 

"We're not really doing names publicly," said Judge ShaSha Xu, an immigration judge in New York City, during an immigration hearing in late June, reports The Intercept. But only the names of the attorneys representing ICE were omitted, shocking the two lawyers representing immigrants in the courtroom. One immigrant's attorney pushed back, stating the record would be incomplete without the ICE lawyer's name. But........

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