ICE is spending up to $20 million on electric-shock gloves for agents facing a 1,300 percent spike in assaults — and the establishment press is worried about the gloves, not the violence that made them necessary.

The Department of Homeland Security posted a contract notice Monday for the CTG-5 G.L.O.V.E. — Generated Low Output Voltage Emitter — a conductive glove that delivers up to 380 volts on skin contact. The devices would go to officers in Homeland Security Investigations, which targets transnational criminal organizations, and Enforcement Removal Operations, which handles arrests and deportations. A no-bid contract could drop as early as Friday, according to the BBC.

Here is what the gloves actually do: they function as standard patrol gloves until an officer presses a switch. The current only works on skin contact — unlike a taser, which fires barbs and delivers up to 50,000 volts. John G. Peters, president of the Institute for the Prevention of In-Custody Deaths, told the Associated Press the sensation is "like a bee sting" — "immediate and sharp, and it will distract you." Lt. Butch Gallion, a Tennessee jail administrator already using the devices, told the BBC that often just the activation light brings compliance.

The BBC and the New York Times framed the purchase as a civil liberties crisis. The Times called the gloves a potential escalation of force and reminded readers that ICE has "fatally shot at least six people" under Trump. The BBC gave ample space to the ACLU's Jenn Rolnick Borchetta, who warned the gloves could deliver shocks "imperceptible to those watching." Both outlets omitted the numbers explaining why agents need new tools.

The Daily Caller reported what the others wouldn't: an ICE spokesperson said assaults on officers have increased 1,300 percent, vehicle attacks are up 3,300 percent, and death threats have surged 8,000 percent. Nearly 70 percent of ICE arrests involve what the agency calls "dangerous illegal aliens" — murderers, rapists, pedophiles, gang members, and terrorists.

DHS told the BBC that ICE is "constantly assessing the needs of our officers in the field to ensure they have the tools and equipment necessary to safely arrest and remove criminal illegal aliens from our country." The manufacturer, Compliant Technologies LLC, declined to comment.

The gloves carry built-in microprocessors that log every activation. The user manual recommends avoiding use on the elderly, small children, pregnant women, and the severely handicapped — hardly the profile of the cartels and criminal aliens ERO and HSI are chasing.

The ACLU and its media amplifiers want you outraged about 380 volts. They don't want you asking why agents are being run over, threatened, and assaulted at rates that have quadrupled, tripled, and octupled. The question isn't the gloves. It's who let the southern border degenerate to the point where they became necessary — and why the same institutions now clucking about force spent years pretending there was no invasion to begin with.