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US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will reportedly play a security role during the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics in Italy.
U.S. Embassy officials told The Associated Press on Tuesday that ICE agents would support diplomatic security details and would not execute any immigration enforcement operations.
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Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, including one wearing a mask that says ‘NO ICE,’ walk near their vehicles, Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026, in Richfield, Minnesota. (AP Photo/Adam Gray)
Pak Gazette Digital has reached out to ICE for comment.
Federal agencies have previously supported the security of American diplomats, including the investigative component of ICE called Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) during the previous Olympics, officials told The Associated Press.
But ICE’s alleged involvement in security did not receive a warm welcome from Italian officials.
Milan Mayor Giuseppe Sala said ICE would not be welcome in the city and cited images of masked officers in Minneapolis. Milan will host most of the events during the Olympic Games which begin on February 6.
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Milan Mayor Giuseppe Sala attends the lighting of the Cortina 2026 Milan Winter Olympic Cauldron, in front of the Quirinal Presidential Palace, in Rome, Friday, December 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, File)
“This is a militia that kills, a militia that enters people’s homes, signing their own permits. It is clear that they are not welcome in Milan, without a doubt,” Sala told RTL Radio 102 before ICE’s alleged involvement in security was revealed.
However, Italian Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi said on Saturday that while he had no information that ICE would be at the Olympics, he did not “see what the problem would be,” according to the ANSA news agency.
The Olympic rings are displayed in the snow at the Stelvio Ski Centre, home of the alpine skiing and ski mountaineering disciplines at the Milan Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games in Bormio, Italy, on January 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno, File)
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Vice President JD Vance will lead a US delegation to attend the opening ceremony. Second lady Usha Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio are expected to be part of the contingent.
