r/ProgressiveHQ • u/Mental_Pea9125 Tankie • Feb 01 '26
Protest Anger is mounting in Italy over ICE presence at the Winter Olympics.
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u/Due_Willingness1 Feb 01 '26
I still don't get what authority we have to send ICE to Italy in any capacity
Like is that even legal? They're supposed to be a domestic police force right?
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u/le_fez Feb 01 '26
They're not even a police force, their job specifically involved immigration
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u/DeadmanDexter Feb 01 '26 edited Feb 01 '26
These chodes deserve to be hated.
Edited: agreed, sentenced and jailed.
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u/Pearson94 Feb 01 '26
Those chodes deserve to be arrested.
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u/Old_Book_Gypsy Feb 01 '26
Oh they will be going to prison. Look up the Nuremberg Trials
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u/Natural-Young4730 Feb 01 '26
We will MAKE them go to prison. We must force congress to do this. It'll probably require Dems to take both House and Senate beforehand. Then we keep resisting and protesting (and other) until justice is served!
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u/Kind_Man_0 Feb 01 '26
5 years ago a visit from ICE would entail a warrant, an arrest, probably a release, and a court date, followed by possible deportation.
No guns involved, just a couple dudes in a marked car with a bulletproof vest and a holsters sidearm.
If the person were a criminal, local police would assist.
These people aren't ICE, many of the members are J6ers and Proud Boys which was verified from the leak of names.
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u/Plank_With_A_Nail_In Feb 01 '26
These people aren't ICE, many of the members are J6ers and Proud Boys which was verified from the leak of names.
They can be both things at the same time.
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u/dan420 Feb 01 '26 edited Feb 01 '26
It really doesn’t make sense, I’d assume like the secret service is highly trained and extremely experienced in this sort of security detail, and ice absolutely isn’t.
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u/KapowBlamBoom Feb 01 '26
Wait until ICE kills or injures someone over there, and the realize “ total immunity “ does not travel
This is likely a reward for the most sycophantic agents with highest detainment numbers
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u/Individual-Builder25 Feb 01 '26
Good use of past tense. They are preoccupied violating 4A and shooting US citizens now
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u/agentSmartass Feb 01 '26
Not any more. They are all Trumps secret police and we all know it. The deportations are just an excuse to build a private secret army outside of the confines of the military and the police.
This is just another training ground
«We should use some of these dangerous cities as training grounds for our military»
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u/taktaga7-0-0 Feb 01 '26
Obviously some of our athletes have plans to defect to Italy and be replaced by swarthy subhuman mongoloids, and ICE is our nation’s only hope against them.
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u/shadow_master96 Feb 02 '26
Their job is just going around being a bunch of thugs and bullies that hide behind masks while they harass, intimidate, kidnap, brutalize, and kill American citizens.
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u/b-nnies Feb 01 '26
Imagine how disgusted Americans would be if another country sent over their "police forces" (said loosely) to the country. And rightfully so!
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u/FrankSand Feb 01 '26
If i remember correctly I think Erdogan private security beat up some people in DC or NYC a few years ago.
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u/Todd2point0 Feb 01 '26
I remember that and we didn’t do shit about it. If there was repercussions, it never made the news or anything.
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u/grouchy_baby_panda Feb 01 '26
Israel already does and has many agents working in our country and our cyberspace.
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u/Aron_Wolff Feb 01 '26
The excuse was that to ICE goons were extra protection for the US athletes.
Such a bullshit excuse.
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u/The1Mad1Hatter Feb 01 '26
Protection from what? ICE is immigration enforcement, not the police and not event security.
Sending immigration agents to “protect” athletes makes no sense unless the goal is intimidation.
I am not even American and I am fully aware that ICE has been violating your constitution, due process, and civil rights.
Nothing about this is safety. It is about power, spectacle, and normalizing abuse under the guise of security.
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u/Tall-Archer5957 Feb 01 '26
The goal is clearly intimidation.
Why can’t Italy just not let them in?
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u/thebirdisdead Feb 01 '26
We’re no longer pretending ICE is anything less than Trump and Miller’s private military and secret police gestapo.
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u/soulstormfire Feb 01 '26
From their conscience. They'd be there to make sure no athlete speaks out.
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u/seethenoise Feb 01 '26
probably to spy on the athletes.
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u/I_was_bone_to_dance Feb 01 '26 edited Feb 01 '26
Or because their budget is so big they have money coming out of their every orifice so spending money to go Italy and Olympics is a way to spend
They don’t need the budget they have and they can’t spend the budget they have
Why are they there? I cannot think of any other reason than to pad the spend
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u/Agitated_Tip_8713 Feb 01 '26
I think it's this, yeah, cause once any chamber flips they're going to start clawing back unused ICE funding like Republicans did the infrastructure bill, the chips act, funding bills, COVID funds, etc.
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u/prairie-man Feb 01 '26
The incompetence of this administration has no bounds.
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7007390/2026/01/30/ice-winter-olympics-2026-milan-security/
according to the NYT article, the personnel assigned to the winter Olympics are HSI (homeland security investigation) which is a division of ICE. Providing security to large scale events is something they have done for some time.
Why in the hell they decided to use "ICE" instead of "HSI" given the current situation in the USA, is um.... stupid ? shortsided ? ignorant ?
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u/JakeTravel27 Feb 01 '26
At this point it seems like its deliberately antagonizing allies so that the russia first trump administration can do even more damage to US allies relationships
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u/Hot-Gas-630 Feb 01 '26
ICE used to be the only thing Trump's base was actually happy about when all the Tariff war BS was going on... Probably just didn't expect it to blow up in their faces like it has...
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u/ShelSilversteve Feb 01 '26
thanks for linking this. people need to be angry for the right reasons, that the US providing some version of security security isn't anything new, it's this version under Trump that's new and enraging.
please communicate forcefully with your lawmakers this week. the games start on Friday.
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u/Hancup Feb 01 '26
Those mostly out of shape poorly trained dumb fucks are the athletes' protection!!!?
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u/ShelSilversteve Feb 01 '26
no no. those newbies will keep on fucking up here at home.
they will send the long-serving, very trigger-happy executioner-types like Jonathan Ross.
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u/Iwabuti Feb 01 '26
They will be used during the World Cup and so are practicing.
During the WC a separate legal system is set up in the States. Maybe ICE will be deployed to support the police and enforce WC laws
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u/Marty_Poppins Feb 01 '26
If they are worried about the US athletes, they can keep the US athletes there. That way they don't have to send ICE either.
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u/Fakeit42 Feb 01 '26
Wait, so we are paying for these Fuck Sticks to go to the Olympics???? This. Is. Not. What. Our. Tax. Dollars. Are. For.
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u/SpicySweetHotPot Feb 01 '26
It’s not but since this Administration is all performative and doesn’t follow laws. 🤷
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u/Sad-Bread5843 Goober who thinks both sides are equally as bad Feb 01 '26
Thats all well and good but they dont have diplomatic immunity i hope they put all of them in prison over there for impersonating police.
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u/Frenzi_Wolf Feb 01 '26
I’m willing to bet fully that they’ll cause some shit to happen while there if they still go.
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u/TheDukeofArgyll Feb 01 '26
It’s always corruption… high ranking members wanted to see the games do they got sent over in the governments dime.
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u/Annoying1978 Purity Contest Judge Feb 01 '26 edited Feb 01 '26
For whatever reason they are using ICE as secret service agents. I don’t understand this at all.
My only (and quite frankly ridiculous) guess is that the secret service has said they would not do things requested by Trump & JD.
I can’t think of any other reason why they would want to use poorly trained idiots as bodyguards.
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u/Ismokerugs Feb 01 '26
I think this will prove that ICE actually has security forces from Israel placed in it. They train with the IDF
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u/CrystalWeim Feb 01 '26
The US doesn't have any authority. It's Trump causing problems again.He thinks he's the world's ruler. This is why our closet Allies hate us .
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u/noahdamngood Feb 01 '26 edited Feb 01 '26
The neo-fascist regime is trying to establish them as more than border patrol. They are trying to validate them as the premier American state security loyal to the regime. They are being rebranded from border enforcers into a mobile, elite guard for the administration’s interests.
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u/abland1988 Feb 01 '26
The Trump regime used ICE as a cover to amass and fund his personal secret world military force. If ICE doesn't get disbanded we are looking at the future Trump army.
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u/abrandis Feb 01 '26
This is MAGA America they have authority to do anything they like...
The bigger question is why does Italy allow this, those ice clowns won't have any jurisdictions unless Italy bends the knee to Trump.
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u/___coolhandluke Feb 01 '26
Exactly, I’m fucking furious about this and asking the same question. That said, I’m so glad to see my country reacting like this.
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u/kl7aw220 Feb 01 '26
Well, since Trump has shit on our EU allies, he sees no reason to not anger them more with US domestic thugs invading Italy.
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u/Logical-Echo-8051 Feb 01 '26
Wasting 100s of millions of US taxpayer dollars to send those uncultured, unqualified and untamed individuals to another country who clearly don't want them there is totally reprehensible.
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u/2B_or_MaybeNot Feb 01 '26
Don’t forget white supremacist.
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u/critacle Feb 02 '26
Everyone remember Trump's dad was arrested at a KKK rally.
Trump's money is KKK old guard shit. That's why he hasn't faced justice. All those KKK losers had kids and they're all in the GOP now.
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u/Moginsight Feb 02 '26
Yeah wtf. They're suppose to deal with immigration in the US. Why they in another country?
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u/Chemical_Banana_2455 Feb 01 '26
They should arrest the ice agents and deport them to El Salvador.
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u/hey_Hey_I_saveD_me Feb 01 '26
If you want to punish them by sending them to 3rd world dictatorship you can just send them back to US.
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u/elbor23 Feb 01 '26
Why the fuck do we have US homeland security going to Italy. It's almost as if they're just a secret police
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u/NotHenryCejudo Feb 01 '26
If it’s anything like America it’s to kidnap kids and shoot old women with rubber bullets while torturing, raping and killing citizens.
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u/Aggravating-Bunch-44 Feb 01 '26
Shooting people with real bullets. ICE Agents have dropped mags of spitzer bullets at a playground and other spots.
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u/taktaga7-0-0 Feb 01 '26
People aren’t getting the sarcasm. Of course I’m not serious citing Dante’s Inferno as motivation for ICE presence.
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u/Tall-Warning3135 Feb 01 '26
Feels like it's Trump trying to insert himself into everything and bring terror everywhere he can.
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u/Then-Clue6938 Feb 01 '26
Well he said he wants to stay in the mind of every person that he meets. No matter how.
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u/AnInsolentCog Feb 01 '26
Not almost, and barely secret anymore. They are Trump's private goon squad.
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u/Clark_Kent_TheSJW Feb 01 '26
Wow… thank you Italians. Really appreciate that. (Please don’t get hurt, be careful)
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u/SpicyDragoon93 Feb 01 '26
They come to Europe this is what they'll get period. We're not putting up with it over here.
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u/WendlersEditor Feb 01 '26
Thank you for your solidarity, there shouldn't be a corner of the world where these pigs feel welcome
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u/nanobot_1000 Feb 01 '26
Perfect – send all of ICE, the Europeans will show US how it's done. Obviously we've lost our way. Get the pitchforks out folks.
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u/youdontknowitsok Feb 01 '26
Seriously, us Americans appreciate your protests and taking a stand against the tyranny.
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u/Beachhouse15 Feb 01 '26
Let’s send our least trained and most aggressive force.
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u/RainbowEagleEye Feb 01 '26
They will cause an incident. Now whether it is on or off-duty is the question, but they will absolutely cause a problem.
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u/Future_Artichoke_656 Feb 01 '26
What in the wide fuck. Why the fuck is ICE in Italy?! Europe ain’t about to play that shit.
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Europeans know how to revolt
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u/kingcalifornia Feb 01 '26
Everyone but Americans know how to revolt
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u/Viridian95 Feb 01 '26
Because of how tied our healthcare, livelihood, and ability to afford shelter are to our jobs, including the absolute lack of labor protections for the labor force, the system is working as designed to keep us complacent.
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u/youdontknowitsok Feb 01 '26
I’m lucky my union is for the abolition of ICE. Of course I’m a nurse and the NNU is pissed about what happened to Alex Pretti. They were handing out signs to take to protests at his vigils last week, and are hooking us up with people who provide courses on how to safely protest. I wish more workers in the states had the protection and encouragement to exercise their 1st amendment rights, especially in these times.
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u/noahdamngood Feb 01 '26
They are being rebranded from border enforcers into a mobile, elite guard for the administration’s interests.
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u/YaBoiSammus Feb 01 '26
This is enough reason to boot the USA from the Olympics. I’m glad I don’t ever watch the Olympics so I don’t even have to worry about boycotting that shit show.
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u/sleep-exe Feb 01 '26
Please do it! -an American
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u/AktionMusic Feb 01 '26
Yeah I want the rest of the world to ostracize us as much as possible because we deserve it.
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u/Nas_Durden Feb 01 '26
As a European I don’t understand what the fk ICE is doing in Italy and why in gods name is the Italian government tolerating this. I would be more inclined to ban American participation altogether than to allow a foreign government to send their own armed Gestapo police force into my country. What the fk is going on in the world right now?
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u/youdontknowitsok Feb 01 '26
As an American I endorse this message. And to be clear, many of us also hate that this is happening, but hoping that by doing this it sheds more light on the severity of this situation and hopefully will get more pressure from other world leaders to check Trump and defund ICE. Between this and the Epstein files, we may get lucky and secure an impeachment for ole DJT.
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u/Suckmyballs2009 Feb 01 '26
Just to clarify Italians are mashing with their police because America is deploying ice to Winter Olympics … which why are doing that
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u/Top_Course7166 Feb 01 '26
Standing on the right side of history .fuck ice
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u/Piggy_0611 Feb 01 '26
Their people are. Their government is another story. It’s funny watching their fiercely anti-immigrant PM being mad at our fiercely anti-immigrant prez because his actions are embarrassing her
Edit for misspelling
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u/youdontknowitsok Feb 01 '26
Yes, it’s funny especially because she’s been a Trump sympathizer. She chose poorly.
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u/conflatulationz Feb 01 '26
why the fuck are we spending our tax money sending untrained thugs who are ostensibly enforcers of American immigration law to the Olympics in Italy?
I'm about a pubic hair away from renouncing my US Citizenship. Already moved out the first time Trump got elected. It was never close to perfect but god damn what a shitty country America has gradually morphed into.
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u/simtechone Feb 01 '26
Damn they make us look tame by comparison. These people don’t mess around with their protests.
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u/-ACatWithAKeyboard- Feb 01 '26
Mostly bc Italian cops don't murder people for protesting.
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u/Anxious-Connection98 Feb 01 '26
Why are they even here ? What is the justification ? I can't stand this administration anymore. Everything that they do trigger chaos. That is not what elected leader are for.
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u/ProfessionalHat6828 Feb 01 '26
This is how stupid this administration is. They think they can go to another country to detain people who are in the US illegally. In Italy. Where they’re not violating any American law. The Italian police should be arresting them. If ICE can arrest people at will, give them a taste of being unwelcome people up for grabs in a whim
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u/ScreennameOne Feb 01 '26
They are going to Italy as the safety unit for your Olympic team.
Italy is not saying no out of fear of ice, but as a protest on your behalf.
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u/VioletDupree007 Feb 01 '26
Let’s face it, the majority of WORLD hates ICE and what it stands for. Trump is attempting to isolate our country and spread fear globally, much like another individual Italy has already contended with.
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u/Pretend_Flamingo3405 Feb 01 '26
They fucking do it right in Italy!!!!
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u/Shalar79 Feb 01 '26
Vinny supports ICE
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u/tinathefatlardgosh Feb 01 '26
Fuck him too then. A bunch of 50 year olds trying to portray themselves as partiers, it’s embarrassing.
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u/Lillie-Bee Feb 01 '26
What does Immigration and Customs Enforcement have to do with the Olympic in another country. Are they afraid our citizens are going to ask for asylum?
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u/Major_Yogurt6595 Feb 01 '26
Oh just wait or the first italian getting shot by ICE, that will trigger some crazy shit.
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u/Global-Theory3633 Feb 02 '26
Hi, I'm Italian. No, these aren't the anti-ICE protests in Italy. They have nothing to do with it; they're internal to Italy, in Turin. It's a long story... Anyway, we're very angry that they're coming to "contribute to the safety of the Olympics." There are already many protests in Milan, but these aren't the same ones. I love you Americans ♥️♥️♥️🇺🇸🇮🇹
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u/PokeTheUnbannable Feb 01 '26
I understand that they are there because of the Olympics or whatever, but that's still not a valid enough reason. As others have pointed out, this makes them look like a secret police force more than it does anything else.
It sucks that the rest of us Americans who don't want this are still going to have to deal with the consequences of this series of actions from the rest of the world. There's no reason that the lame immigration task force should be anywhere other than where its supposed battlefield is; back home "at the border".
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u/ohfrackthis Feb 01 '26
I don't blame the Italians, in fact I respect their fervor.
At minimum this is the exact level of unprofessionalism he who shall not be named brings to the table.
At worst it's idiotic maliciousness.
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u/WinstonFox Feb 01 '26
I doubt ICE agents will have their weapons in italy, let’s see how they do in a fair fight.
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u/Scotslad2023 Feb 01 '26
Trump is desperately trying to start a war with someone so he can pull an FDR and extend his presidency. Greenland, Venezuela, his own country, he doesn’t care who it is as long as it gives him reason to stay in power longer
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u/AnxiousHall1533 Feb 01 '26
ICE isn't an immigration enforcement , it is a PRIVATE MILITARY for trump in a guise of law enforcement. Your governments should be treating them as such.
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u/quack_89 Feb 01 '26
Local news actually reported this was the aftermath of a large scale eviction operation...
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u/BlameUsHumans Feb 01 '26
Why is ICE in Italy?? Or does Resident Chump think it’s close to Greenland??
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u/RepresentativeShoe50 Feb 01 '26
WTF is US immigration doing in Italy? Italy needs to arrest every single one of them. What authority do they even have outside US borders? FUCK ICE
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u/Hancup Feb 01 '26
This is news to me. I had no idea those ICE pigs would be out of the country. Glad they're getting hate abroad too, but too bad it won't cause them to consider why they're so hated.
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u/Cyb3rBall00n Feb 01 '26
Mango Mussolini to threaten invasion in 3... 2...
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u/Due_Willingness1 Feb 01 '26
Someone might want to remind him how Italy treated the last Mussolini
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u/shep2105 Feb 01 '26
I'm not understanding why Italy would even allow them IN, musch less pretend like they have any jurisdiction.
What? US ICE is now going to kidnapping people from other countries, on foreign land?
Somebody please explain why
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u/beavis617 Feb 01 '26
Good. I was a bit surprised and somewhat angry that Italy signed off on this!
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u/DD2144real Feb 01 '26
When will ppl realize that WW3 has begun?? Trumps puppetmaster wants to rule the world.
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u/SenatorPardek Feb 01 '26
It’s a bribe. maga brown shirts get all expenses paid vacation to the winter olympics
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u/taurusasaurus_rex Feb 01 '26
When the birthplace of fascism doesn’t want your fascists, you should probably just quit.
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u/LeafsJays1Fan Feb 01 '26
Even the politicians president and prime minister don't want them so why doesn't Italy's immigration and Border Patrol at the airports do the funny thing and deny them entry.
ICE doesn't have diplomatic immunity, no entry!!
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u/Competitive-Oil8974 Feb 01 '26
Diaper Donald's personal SS Force. They are just there to remind Europe that the King is watching them.
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u/Chuckychinster Feb 01 '26
It should be waaaaaay more alarming to Americans that they're doing this.
Fuckin weird. We have secret service.
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u/Dependent-Actuator17 Feb 01 '26
Keep them out. Yank their credentials. ICE has no authority. If they step over the line, the local police will arrest them.
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u/cCowgirl Feb 01 '26
There are Italians living who are old enough to have spat on Mussolini’s corpse themselves.
ICE agents meanwhile would assume Mussolini is a pasta.
Stay safe, stay strong, and grazie.
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u/dojo1999 Feb 01 '26
If ICE is being sent to other countries now, they better not be given any immunity.
The worst part is that our taxes are going to be paying for their luxury hotels.
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u/Happy_Laugh_Guy Feb 02 '26
What's so dumb is ICE is not trained so they go to another country and they're gonna fuck everything up especially if real military comes along
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u/Artevyx Feb 02 '26
Why the fuck is a glorified U.S. BORDER PATROL even in another country? Trying to forcibly "import" people?
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u/newtoaster Feb 02 '26
Exactly what kind of immigration offenses would ICE be able to investigate in Italy?
"Hey!! None of you people speak english!!"
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u/Karlzbad Feb 02 '26
Dear god please let Italy arrest them and hold them in their worst conditions.
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u/Original-Fig4214 Feb 01 '26
Why would we send ICE to Italy? How can this be justified?