Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass wants to prevent Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents from wearing masks as they enforce federal immigration law in her city because she claims the practice needlessly spreads fear in immigrant communities. The only ones spreading fear are Bass and her Democratic colleagues as they amplify hoaxes and demonize law enforcement officers who are only trying to do their jobs as safely as possible.

Taking time off from her busy schedule of not approving rebuilding permits, Bass sat for two Sunday show interviews this weekend in which she pressed the message that “masked men in unmarked cars” were driving around Los Angeles, kidnapping people and frightening both legal and illegal immigrants.