ICE Is Taking Its Mission Abroad – and Europeans

Agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) are taking their act on the street and heading abroad, and some Europeans aren’t too joyful about it. Let the pearl clutching start.

As is outwardly customized for the United States, a contingent of ICE brokers, particularly from the company’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) unit, are heading to Italy to help with security at the Winter Olympic video games in Milan. HSI focuses on cross-border crimes, as opposed to the Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) unit, which is accountable for apprehending unlawful aliens in the United States; it is ERO that you are seeing on the streets of Minneapolis. The two models are utterly separate arms of ICE.

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The important distinction between the 2 models appears to be misplaced on some European officers, who are in full panic mode over the efforts of the U.S. authorities to help keep the peace at the Winter Games by sending in ICE. Milan’s mayor calls ICE “a militia that kills,” and says the brokers “are not welcome in Milan.

Milan Mayor Giuseppe Sala issued a fiery assertion during an interview on Italian radio this week, calling ICE a harmful “militia” that he wouldn’t enable into his metropolis.

“This is a militia that kills, a militia that enters into the homes of people, signing their own permission slips,” Sala told a local Italian radio station, referencing a current ICE memo permitting the use of administrative warrants, relatively than judicial warrants, to enter properties in the U.S.

“It is clear they are not welcome in Milan, without a doubt,” he added. The metropolis is set to host the Feb. 6 opening ceremony, which Vice President JD Vance is scheduled to attend.

Mayor Sala’s uninformed take on the scenario was doubtless fueled by a spate a imprecise media experiences in the European press that ICE was deploying brokers to Italy. He wasn’t the only one to misunderstand the specifics, and online petitions soon popped up demanding that ICE be banned from having a presence at the Games. Footage of an Italian news crew accosting ICE brokers in Minneapolis did not help the matter any.

It seems the pearl clutching by many Europeans is all for naught, as the HSI brokers will probably be working from a control room at the U.S. Consulate in Milan as it gives security help for American diplomats attending the Games, and is not going to, in fact, be raiding non-public residences and frog-marching Europeans to the gallows.

Italy’s Interior Ministry said later that the HSI investigators could be stationed at a control room at the U.S. Consulate in Milan, in a help function with other U.S. law enforcement businesses, and that they might not embrace personnel concerned in immigration controls in the United States. It famous in a assertion issued after Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi and U.S. Ambassador Tilman Fertitta met Tuesday morning that HSI brokers are current in more than 50 international locations, including for many years Italy.

“All of the security operations in the territory stay as always the exclusive accountability and direction of Italian authorities,’’ the ministry said.

Hopefully, this overreaction is not a harbinger of issues to come for American athletes at the Games, but leftists of all nationalities appear incapable of even the smallest bits of decorum these days. Be on the lookout for agitators to take benefit of having the world’s consideration targeted on the Winter Games. 

The 2026 Winter Olympics (Milano Cortina) will probably be held February 6 – 22.

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