"People are out there taking photos of the names and their faces and posting them online with death threats to their family and to themselves," Lyons emphasized, explaining just one incident in Los Angeles where officers were doxxed after an operation. He was upset that they would be put in that position.

"So I'm sorry if people are offended by them wearing masks, but I'm not going to let my officers and agents go out there and put their lives on the line, their family on the line because people don't like what immigration enforcement is."

He wanted to know why the media was asking about masks, and not about the threats to the ICE officers and their families.

"Is that the issue here, or is anyone upset with the fact that ICE officers' families were labeled as terrorists?" he declared with great emotion.