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Milan’s mayor, Giuseppe Sala, spoke out Tuesday amid reports that the U.S Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents would have a security role during the upcoming Winter Olympics, which are scheduled to begin in Milan on February 6.
“This is a militia that kills,” Sala said in an interview with Italian media. “It is a militia that enters people’s homes by signing permits… It is clear that they are not welcome in Milan, there is no doubt about that.”
“At the Olympics, ICE’s Homeland Security Division (HSI) supports the US Department of State’s Diplomatic Security Service and the host nation in screening and mitigating the risk of transnational criminal organizations. All security operations remain under Italian jurisdiction,” ICE said in a statement to the French news agency AFP.
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Sources at the U.S. Embassy in Rome told the AP that ICE will support U.S. diplomatic security details during the Olympics, but will not conduct any immigration enforcement operations in Milan.
A spokesman for the US Embassy would neither confirm nor deny the reports to CBS News on Tuesday.
Despite the outcry, Sala wondered aloud during an interview with Italy’s RTL Radio 102: “Can we ever say no to Trump?”
“I believe they should not come to Italy, because they do not guarantee that they are aligned with our democratic methods of security management,” Sala said. “We can take care of their safety ourselves. We don’t need ICE.”
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Reports of ICE’s planned role in U.S. security operations during the upcoming Winter Olympics emerged after Italian state television aired a video Sunday of ICE agents threatening to break the windows of a vehicle carrying a state television crew as they covered the events in MinneapolisAP reported.
The fatal shot Alex Pretti by Border Patrol agents in Minneapolis over the weekend, less than three weeks after Renee Good, another Minneapolis resident and US citizen, was shot and killed by an ICE officer, put the city at the center of a US dispute over immigration enforcement and the tactics of its federal agencies.
