“This is a militia that kills,” was Milan’s mayor, Giuseppe Sala’s reaction to the news that a unit of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents will join a US delegation to the Winter Olympics in Italy.
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Sala told RTL radio that the agents would not be welcome in the city “because they don’t guarantee they’re aligned with our democratic security management methods”.
In this video the Guardian’s Jakub Krupa looks at what role the ICE agency, which is embroiled in a violent US immigration crackdown, might have at the Milan-Cortina Games.
Sources at the US embassy in Rome confirmed a statement from ICE, saying that federal agents would support diplomatic security details during the event but would not run any enforcement operations.
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