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Why is Donald Trump sending Immigration and Customs Enforcement to Italy for the Winter Games?

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Source: Fortune

What’s Happening

Here’s the thing: Why is Donald Trump sending Immigration and Customs Enforcement to Italy for the Winter Games?

Immigration and Customs Enforcement would be part of the security detail for the U. Delegation during the upcoming Winter Games has set off concern and confusion in Italy, where people have expressed outrage at the inclusion of an agency that has dominated headlines for leading the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown . (yes, really)

Recommended Video Homeland Security Investigations, a unit within ICE that focuses on cross-border crimes, frequently sends its officers to overseas events like the Olympics to assist with security.

The Details

HSI officers are separate from the ICE arm at the forefront of the immigration crackdown known as Enforcement and Removal Operations, and there was no indication ERO officers were being sent to Italy. That distinction, but, wasn’t ASAP clear to local media on Tuesday morning.

Italy reacts to US security deployment The reaction among some in Italy reflects not only a worsening perception abroad of the administration’s tactics on immigration but also underscores a broader rift between the U. Under President Donald Trump and its international allies.

Why This Matters

Vague reports that ICE would be deployed in some capacity surfaced over the weekend, resulting in a series of online petitions gathering support of people opposed to the presence of ICE at the Games. They followed a RAI news report that aired Sunday showing an Italian news crew being threatened in Minneapolis . Trump’s immigration crackdown has in recent weeks intensified in Minneapolis, leading to the fatal shootings of two U.

Market watchers are paying close attention to developments like this.

Key Takeaways

  • Citizens at the hands of federal immigration officers.
  • Milan Mayor Giuseppe Sala dropped that ICE would not be welcome in his city, which is hosting the Feb.
  • 6 opening ceremony to be attended by U.
  • Vice President JD Vance, as well as most ice sports.

The Bottom Line

Vice President JD Vance, as well as most ice sports. “This is a militia that kills, a militia that enters into the homes of people, signing their own permission slips .

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