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Outrage is growing in Italy over the deployment ICE agents to assist US security operations at the Winter Olympics next month. https://cnn.it/3NJAMre

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Surely nothing bad can happen when ICE agents, with federal taxpayer funded expense accounts, descend on Italy, right? I hope Italy prohibits them from carrying any weapons (if they're acting responsibly, they must).

Remove the US from the Olympics & remove the Olympics from the US; remove the World Cup from the US & remove the US from the World Cup! They need to face the same sanctions as all other dictatorship countries, eg. Russia, N. Korea etc. There is no difference any more.

It’s not for “security.” It’s a reward program for agents. Who has the most captures with the worst brutality? Oh, you gassed a baby in the face AND beat up its parents? Great work. You win a trip to Italy.

They should be. It is disgraceful for America to send masked thugs to other countries. ICE is made of the dregs of our society and simultaneously brings shame to America and shows disrespect to any place we dump them like the shit they are.

Let them order spaghetti with Ketchup in Italy.... they will not survive. Maybe the murderers earned a special vacation with their Boss JD... maybe they hope, nobody will yell FU in their face for a 8h work shift. .... they'll find out. They'll see a real demonatration.

If Trump sends ICE to the Olympics, the US should be banned from participating in the games. It's a huge disappointment for the competitors who have worked so hard, but the reality is the ICE goons have no place at the Olympics.

If we are ok with Italy allowing ICE in to act as security (note not enforcement per article), it starts to look a little like complicity. Further, one only needs to look at history in the last 100 years to understand giving a burgeoning fascist regime an inch can be the same as a yard...

the USA should be banned from the Olympics after trumps admin causing international terror-we are becoming russia & belarus-maybe that would wake americans the f--K up

Italians are right! With 'blood' in their hands, appointing ICE 'disasters' for such an important global event is 'beyond silliness' and it may cut 80% of the tourists and visitors who are to come for Winter Olympics! It must be cancelled!

NO gestapo anywhere in Europe! Stop them at the border and either send them back to the fascist shithole they came from or arrest and extradite them to The Hague for trial at the ICC.

The media should be asking why is ICE being used to protect Vance and Rubio on an international trip instead of the Secret Service. Lest we forget, ICE lowered their recruitment standards in order to bolster their force. They have no skill in diplomatic relations or protecting high level targets.

Italy- this is from an American- keep ICE out. It is a criminal organization just like the rest of our current administration. They don't know how to spell safety let alone enforce it. And please don't let bone spurs intimidate.

During COVID, Trump banned VISAs entry of 75 countries. So maybe the World should consider blocking entry of US citizens, White House and other regime members until DHS is shutdown. Just an idea. 💡

A) Europe has always felt the USA is arrogant, not just because of Orange Mussolini. B) I doubt athletes will personally be booed. But your anthem will. Fuck the home of the brave, I don't see any brave people.

You’re saying the people of Minneapolis and surrounding towns that have been out protesting against ice and are literally being murdered for it, and continue to go out and protest in negative degree weather aren’t brave? And everyone else across the country who does the same thing in their cites?No?

In EU countries there have been protests in solidarity with Minneapolis and ICE victims in front of US embassies for weeks. Italy has a right-wing pro-Trump anti-immigrants government, & Lombardy as well but 🔽

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#Italy #USpolitics ICE officials: Our agents will be in Milan & Cortina during the winter Olympics. Milan's mayor: "I don't want them, they act illegally and kill." Lombardy's governor: I don't mind. Milanese: We do. First protest against ICE 🔽 - more forthcoming...

Trump and Vance are trying to normalize these goons. The agency needs to be eradicated. They're monkeys with machine guns. Vance can take his Secret Service to the games like a normal fucking VP.

Italy, please ship these ICE buffoons over to CECOT. Absolutely no reason for them to be there. Crap, the US shouldn’t be allowed to participate either.

Just for some contexts, historically multiple federal and law enforcement agencies have provided extra diplomatic security during events like this. So it's not that it's something new, it's just in the occurrence situation and the current environment it's a stupid idea.

Italy needs to advise the US that government security accompanying the US Olympic team is prohibited from possessing and carrying firearms on Italian soil. And further prohibited from interferring with anyone legally in Italy. Any ICE officer who violates the prohibitions will be summarily deported.

Well, when a majority of the world wants to rid the planet of this administration, the administration’s only path is to have more security. But not at the Olympics, FFS. Just do not go, ya bunch a douchebags. Stay home and have a nice circle jerk.

These guys are not capable of reading the room. Americans are being brutalized and killed by ICE but they want to send these same people to Italy for an international sport event. #abolishice

I offer this suggestion: see some Winter Olympics in Canada instead. Lovely people, safe streets, no fascist goon squads allowed.

Why the fuck would you send an immigration enforcement force…to a foreign country?! Oh it’s his personal militia. Then why would you send your personal militia…to the Olympics in a foreign country?

We’ve been screaming at the world to ban the US from the Olympics because of all the fascism so this is really on them WTF did they think? Hitler wouldn’t send his gestapo? This is what you get for passively accepting nazis

What fucking idiot decided to send the Republican Gestapo to Italy for the Olympics? Or is this just a way to get some of the Gestapo a paid vacation to go watch the Olympics? On the taxpayers dime?

Just a reminder to Italy and other countries - ICE is the LEAST trained law enforcement agency in the U.S., with training as little as 4 weeks to complete full training and being allowed to carry firearms and shoot at citizenry or immigrants. These agents should concern EVERYONE!

The murderers of Good and Pretti apparently both had more than 5 years experience. I wish they were killing out of ignorance and a lack of training. But they are killing out of blood lust and hate. Killing as fascists do. Training isn't going to make ICE better. Jail time maybe.

Would it be feasible for the Olympics to formally disinvite the US from the games, but allow the US athletes to participate under Independent flag so they don't miss out. Isn't there precedent from a previous Olympic Games ?

I read ICE would accompany the Secret Service in Italy. So, learn, gather insight and when in the US again, gradually take over guarding Trump. It's a soft start abroad to get people used to the idea. Then he'll have his loyal, private army in time for the midterm elections.

Boondoggle in the Italian Alps paid for by American tax dollars. Get rewarded by Trump for being such good goons and he doesn't have to pay for it. Win-win.

They’re not actually immigration officers. They’re goons. Trump sent his henchmen to test how intimidated other countries are by them/him. I hope Italy chases them right out.

ICE agents may have gone with US diplomats overseas to different countries for past Olympics, but now they work under Trump. I hope US Olympic athletes boycott/drop out.

They probably remember the stories told to them by their friends who immigrated here—the insults, slurs, and abuse that they faced for daring to want to participate in the “American Dream”. The way this president and his racists scum supporters talk, the whole world should boycott us. 🙄