Hundreds of protesters gathered in a central square in Milan on Saturday, demanding that U.S. ICE agents assisting with security at the Winter Olympics leave Italy.
Many of the Italians who chanted and blew whistles near the grand stone arch in the Piazza XXV Aprile said they had been horrified and angered by images and videos on social media showing ICE agents operating violently in Minneapolis.
“All the videos are public and everyone can see what’s happening,” said Bruna Scanziani, age 18, who held up a sign with photographs of Renee Macklin Good and Alex Pretti, two American citizens killed by ICE agents. “The perception of America has changed.”
So american tax payer here. Why are ice agents in another country point blank period? I’m not expert on juristiction, but it sure feels like an “immigration” agency’s ends at the border
You’d be surprised how many people in Italy don’t have US citizenship.
ICE in Italy - “You are not American citizens, so we must kidnap you to America so we can deport you from america!”
The CIIRRCLE OF FASCIIISM
Siimmmbaaaaa
“REMEMBER, WHO
YOUTHEY ARRRREEEEEE”
The thing that is being buried by most headlines and maybe articles is that ICE is a part of Department of Homeland Security. One such part of DSH is Homeland Security Investigations. People are conflating the two. HSI has been for many years at such international events with a U.S. presence to conduct investigations regarding international crime and terrorism.
EDIT: I should have clarified that it is HSI that is in Italy, not ICE.
HSI is very much a part of the problem here.
I should have clarified that it is HSI that is there, not ICE.
The article says ICE.
This is what I read. Apparently HSI operates within ICE. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/ap-report-ice-agents-will-help-with-security-at-milan-cortina-olympics
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ICE are trump’s praetorian guard, a paid trip to Europe and the Olympics on company time is a reward for loyalty shown to the executive over the people.
Pretorian Guard?
God I hope not, they’ll end up accidentally shooting everyone
On the plus side, the guard also killed a good number of the people they were supposedly protecting…
They’re doing “customs” enforcement.
Trump just be ragebaiting at this point
Call them what they are. They are American Brown Shirts. Fucking Nazis. The Pedo-in-Chief’s personal poorly trained dipshit army full of small dick energy.
Oh I have been and people aren’t happy with me. I’ve also been calling Hispanic ICE agents modern day Verband nationaldeutscher Juden whenever someone tries telling me that ICE is a diverse org and the protesters are all whities.
I mean Italy is run by a nazi, so that might get them support over there.
In the past, that kind of activity by U.S. agents has been a normal part of major international events like the Olympics.
Has it? NPR should expand on that because it seems like Trump is using ICE as a sort of pretorian guard (not actually trusting them with his life but using them as goons to look tough while the SecretSeevice do the real work)
Those Protesters are TERRORISTS! Because Protesting is AGAINST the US Constitution!
Deport them to one of your island prisons, paisane
