In a now-deleted X post on Sunday, Sen. Mike Lee appeared to compare masks worn by ICE agents to those worn by cartels setting fire to a gas station in Mexico. The intrigue: The comparison directly " if temporarily " contradicted the Trump administration's defense of immigration agents' concealment of their identities during raids, arrests and other public actions. Driving the news: "Cartel hitmen wear masks," Lee wrote above a video showing three armed men, one masked, setting a gas station ablaze. "Leftists aren't complaining."