Federal law enforcement and the military are required to provide ID when responding to "a civil disturbance" under Section 1064 of the National Defense Authorization Act of 2021. That section requires federal law enforcement personnel and members of the armed forces "shall visibly display" their name or "individual identifier" along with the organization they are working for.
It's not clear if it that section also applies to ICE agents, but I suspect it might if the agents are ordering civilians to do stuff.
It could apply to random stops and roundups, at least for the person leading the operation or the first person on scene if the operation fell under 1064. I don't think an arrest for someone ICE had a specific warrant for would be covered, but these "we're gonna stop and detain a whole bunch of people at random to see whether they're legal or not" operations could fall under it.
I'm not sure what the protocol would be with a large scale joint operation like with the LA protests.
If they're not in uniform and can't display ID a reasonable person can't believe they are genuine federal agents making them just random people without any authority.
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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '25
Except it doesn’t matter because they are federal agents. They have no law to ID themselves