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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement personnel deployed for the Milano Cortina Olympics volition not behaviour immoderate policing connected Italian streets, Italy's interior curate said connected Tuesday, dismissing governmental outrage over their beingness arsenic baseless.
ICE and Border Patrol agents person travel nether dense disapproval successful the United States implicit their enforcement of President Donald Trump's migration crackdown, and caller quality that ICE would beryllium operating astatine the February 6-22 Games caused choler successful Italy.
Addressing those concerns, Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi told parliament that lone operatives from ICE's Homeland Security Investigations part would be successful Milan.
"We volition not spot thing connected nationalist territory that resembles what has been seen successful the media successful the United States," Piantedosi said, confirming previous statements that the HSI investigators would lone enactment retired of U.S. diplomatic missions.
"The interest that inspired the contention of caller days is truthful wholly unfounded," the curate said.
Fierce disapproval of ICE presence
Italian politicians, peculiarly from centre-left absorption parties, had fiercely criticised the beingness of ICE agents astatine the Games pursuing the shooting of 2 U.S. citizens successful Minneapolis who were observing or protesting ICE actions.
Piantedosi said the beingness of HSI investigators stemmed from a bilateral accord ratified by Italy successful 2014 erstwhile the centre-left was successful power.
"The beingness of unit linked to the ICE bureau is not a abrupt oregon unilateral effort to restrict our nationalist sovereignty," Piantedosi said. "It is the implementation of a binding planetary agreement, afloat compliant with our Constitution and parliamentary prerogatives."
‘ICE OUT’ protests
A hard-left Italian commercialized national has announced an "ICE OUT" protestation during the February 6 opening ceremony.
Piantedosi said Italy had drawn up a monolithic information program for the Games, which are being staged crossed bluish regions, and was dispatching 6,000 constabulary officers, ranging from bomb squads and canine anti-sabotage teams to alpine units and anti-terror operatives.
"We volition not deviate 1 centimetre from the people we person taken to guarantee information and nationalist bid astatine this large event, which volition further fortify Italy's planetary credibility," helium said.
Among those expected for Friday's opening ceremonial are U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
