President Donald Trump said Monday that Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents deployed to U.S. airports should not wear masks while assisting with security operations, arguing the setting does not require the same precautions as enforcement actions.
"I've requested now... that they take off the masks," Trump told reporters before departing Florida. "I don't like it for the airport." He added that while masks may be appropriate when targeting "murderers" and "criminals," "the people coming into the airport, typically speaking, aren't murderers, killers, drug dealers."
