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"Outrage is growing in Italy over the deployment of Immigration and Customs
Enforcement (ICE) agents to assist US security operations at the Winter
Olympics next month – something US officials say has been common practice at
previous Olympics.
ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations, a division of the agency, will serve “a
security role” at the Olympics, a spokesperson from the US Department of
Homeland Security confirmed to
CNN Tuesday. “They don’t do immigration
enforcement (operations) in a foreign country obviously,” the spokesperson
added.
Federal agencies have supported the security of US diplomats at previous
Olympics, including Homeland Security Investigations, a State Department
spokesperson told
CNN.
The State Department also specified that its Diplomatic Security Service (DSS)
is leading the US security effort in Milan.
“At the Olympics, ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations is supporting the U.S.
Department of State’s Diplomatic Security Service and host nation to vet and
mitigate risks from transnational criminal organizations,” DHS spokesperson
Tricia McLaughlin told
CNN in a statement. “All security operations remain
under Italian authority,” she added.
Current and former lawmakers have urged Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni
to intervene and block the agents’ presence in the wake of two fatal shootings
during Trump’s ongoing immigration crackdown in Minneapolis."
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