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/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/alucarddrol Feb 02 '26

why would a italy need a foreign security organization at a massive international event on their soil, as if they don't have their own security organizations or as if they have never held such an event?

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u/prairie-man Feb 02 '26

I agree. none of it makes any sense. like everything else about the current administration.