Progressive pols have amped up their hyperbolic resistance-speak, casting ICE agents and Homeland Security Officers as the new villains on the scene.

It’s not enough for sanctuary cities to restrict local police cooperation with ICE agents so illegal immigrants can evade the law, now pols decry ICE as “a rogue agency,” and the agents as “secret police.”

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-NY, wrote in a recent fundraising email obtained by Fox News Digital: “I believe that ICE, an agency that was just formed in 2003 during the Patriot Act era, is a rogue agency that should not exist.”

The illegal immigrant gang members, drug traffickers, murderers and child rapists nabbed by ICE and law enforcement agencies? Irrelevant, apparently.

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu joined the inflammatory bandwagon, saying last week in an interview with WBUR: “People are terrified for their lives and for their neighbors. Folks getting snatched off the street by secret police who are wearing masks and can offer no justification for why certain people are being taken and then detained.”

“Secret police?” Really?

Yes, the arrest tactics of ICE and Homeland Security agents have raised concerns, particularly the wearing of masks.

Massachusetts U.S. Attorney Leah Foley fired back: “Federal agents in marked jackets and vests are masking their faces because people like Mayor Wu have created false narratives about their mission. Federal agents and their children are being threatened, doxxed and assaulted. That is why they must hide their faces.”

Mayor Wu, of all people, should understand what it’s like to have strangers who don’t like what you do show up outside your home where you live with children. It happened to her in 2022, when crowds opposed to the mayor’s COVID mask mandate gathered outside her Roslindale house.

Wu filed an ordinance, which passed, placing restrictions on picketing in order to “protect the health and well-being of residents in our neighborhoods against targeted harassment.”

The following year, her administration compiled a list of Wu’s most vocal critics and sent it to the Boston Police Department, claiming security concerns.

“The list was made in response to a request from the Boston Police Department after the Mayor had been harassed and physically intimidated by individuals for several months outside her home, at city functions such as the annual neighborhood parks coffee hours, and at other public events,” Wu spokesman Ricardo Patron said in a statement to the Herald.

Freedom from harassment and threats for me, but not for thee.

Foley added a primer on what the federal agents are doing. “There are no secret police. ICE agents, along with other federal law enforcement partners, are making immigration arrests. That is no secret,” she said in a video released Wednesday on her office’s social media accounts.

But ignoring immigration laws and slamming those who enforce them is progressive gold, especially when elections loom. It helps detract from four years of doing nothing to curtail Joe Biden’s open borders and the damage they did.