A federal judge has rejected a call from the regime to hide the name of an ICE agent based in Boston who now faces a lawsuit from a Fitchburg man who says he was already being restrained by another agent when the guy applied a chokehold that caused him to lose consciousness and begin to convulse.

Carlos Sebastian Zapata Rivera sued Acting ICE Supervisory Detention and Deportation Officer David Jackson - at first as "John Doe" - for the Nov. 6 incident, in which agents surrounded the car in which he was driving his wife to work, along with their US-born 1-year-old daughter.

In February, the US Attorney's office in Boston sought to intervene in the case, to have Jackson's name kept secret, not just during the lawsuit, but forever, claiming that revealing his identity "will seriously endanger Defendant and his family, and would subject Defendant to unwarranted public scrutiny and media attention in derogation of his right to privacy."

In contrast to its concern for the agent's privacy, Homeland Security…