{"id":2559849,"date":"2026-01-31T15:37:02","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T20:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/demonstrators-in-milan-protest-ice-unit-at-winter-olympics\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T15:39:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T20:39:19","slug":"demonstrators-in-milan-protest-ice-unit-at-winter-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/demonstrators-in-milan-protest-ice-unit-at-winter-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"Demonstrators in Milan protest ICE unit at Winter Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdemonstrators-in-milan-protest-ice-unit-at-winter-olympics%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2559849&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Hundreds of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kenosha-wis-under-emergency-declaration-ahead-of-decision-in-jacob-blake-case\/\" title=\"Kenosha, Wis. under emergency declaration ahead of decision in Jacob Blake case\">demonstrators gathered<\/a> in Milan\u2019s Piazza XXV Aprile to protest the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/emirates-release-statement-explaining-u-s-flight-cancellations-due-to-5g-chaos\/\" title=\"Emirates Release Statement Explaining U.S. Flight Cancellations Due To 5G Chaos\">planned deployment<\/a> of U.S.Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to support the U.S. delegation at the Milan\u2013Cortina 2026 winter Olympics, even though the agents would be stationed in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/see-it-first-photos-of-mars-from-nasas-perseverance-rover\/\" title=\"SEE IT: First Photos Of Mars From NASA\u2019s Perseverance Rover\">control room<\/a> rather than patrolling streets. Participants included members of the Democratic Party, the CGIL trade union, ANPI and other groups, who waved banners and blew whistles to voice concerns about what they see as creeping authoritarianism and human-rights abuses linked to ICE. Organizers and protesters pointed to recent violent incidents involving ICE in the U.S.; some signs called the agency \u201cGestapo\u201d while others used slogans such as \u201cIce only in Spritz.\u201d Officials say the unit being sent is Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), which commonly assists overseas events, not the Enforcement and removal Operations (ERO) responsible for <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >domestic immigration crackdowns<\/a>. The deployment has provoked political backlash in Italy: milan\u2019s mayor opposed it and Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi was summoned to Parliament. The Olympics open Feb. 6, with high-level U.S. depiction expected.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Demonstrators in Milan protest ICE unit at Winter Olympics<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2489762\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>MILAN (AP) &mdash;<\/strong> Hundreds of demonstrators gathered Saturday in Milan to protest the deployment of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents during the upcoming&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/milan-cortina-2026-winter-olympics\">Winter Olympics<\/a>, unbothered by the fact that agents would be stationed in a control room and not operating on the streets.<\/p>\n<p>The protest in Piazza XXV Aprile, a square named for the date of Italy&rsquo;s liberation from Nazi fascism in 1945, drew people from the left-leaning Democratic Party, the CGIL trade union confederation and the ANPI organizations that protect the memory of Italy&rsquo;s partisan resistance during World War II, along with many other people.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/4442061\/danish-veterans-protest-trump-admin-greenland-plans\/\">Danish veterans protest outside US Embassy over Trump administration&rsquo;s Greenland plans<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/4442053\/coast-guard-suspends-search-fishing-vessel-massachusetts\/\">Coast Guard suspends search for people missing from fishing vessel that sank off Massachusetts<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/congressional\/4442013\/democrats-challenge-fitzpatrick-pa-01\/\">Who are the Democrats running to challenge Fitzpatrick in PA-01?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>Organizers handed out plastic whistles, which participants blew as music blared from a van. The protest was as much against the news that agents from a&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/ice-milan-cortina-olympics-immigration-enforcement-us-110fa4b2066e1fb920dba2a71c3a89e0\">division of ICE would participate<\/a>&nbsp;in security for the U.S. delegation as against what many of those present said they saw as creeping fascism in the United States.<a><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/in_focus\/4441322\/fact-check-al-gore-inconvenient-truth-20th-anniversary\/\">JOE CONCHA: AN INCONVENIENT FACT CHECK: AL GORE&rsquo;S INCONVENIENT TRUTH ON ITS 20TH ANNIVERSARY<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;No thank you, from&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/immigration-enforcement-minneapolis-hospitals-32cd5ca61d495e155d43b7cfd5e563b9\">Minnesota<\/a>&nbsp;to the world, at the side of anyone who fights for human rights,&rsquo;&rsquo; read one banner. &ldquo;Never again means never again for anyone,&rsquo;&rsquo; read another, and &ldquo;Ice only in Spritz,&rsquo;&rsquo; a reference to a popular aperitif, read yet another.<\/p>\n<p>The ICE agents to be deployed to Milan are not from the same unit as the immigration agents cracking down in Minnesota and other U.S. cities.<\/p>\n<p>News of the deployment of ICE agents has provoked a backlash in Italy. Milan Mayor Giuseppe Sala has said they were not welcome. Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi has been called to Parliament to testify about the deployment this week.<\/p>\n<p>Protester Silvana Grassi held a sign that read &ldquo;Ice=Gestapo.&rdquo; She said the scenes of ICE agents in Minneapolis shooting and killing protesters and detaining children were deeply upsetting.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/4441743\/epstein-files-show-musk-planned-to-visit-island-despite-denial-of-ties\/\">EPSTEIN FILES SHOW MUSK PLANNED TO VISIT INFAMOUS ISLAND FOR &lsquo;WILDEST PARTY&rsquo; DESPITE DENIAL OF TIES<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It makes me want to cry to think of it,&rsquo;&rsquo; Grassi said. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s too terrible. How did they elect such a terrible, evil man?&rsquo;&rsquo;<\/p>\n<p>Homeland Security Investigations, an ICE unit that focuses on cross-border crimes, frequently sends its officers to overseas events like the Olympics to assist with security. The ICE arm at the&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/immigration\">forefront of the immigration crackdown<\/a>&nbsp;in the U.S. is known as Enforcement and Removal Operations, and there is no indication its officers are being sent to Italy.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Even if it&rsquo;s not the same ones, we don&rsquo;t want them here,&rsquo;&rsquo; Grassi said.<\/p>\n<p>Paolo Bortoletto, also holding a banner, was aware that the officers would have an investigative and not a street role.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/4441627\/the-choices-that-we-make-west-virginia\/\"><strong>SALENA ZITO: THE CHOICES THAT WE MAKE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Still, he said, &ldquo;We don&rsquo;t want them in our country. We are a peaceful country. We don&rsquo;t want fascists. It&rsquo;s their ideas that bother us.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The Olympics begin Feb. 6 with an opening ceremony that will be attended by U.S. Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Milan protesters oppose U.S. ICE at Winter Games<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":2559850,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/AP26030736082414.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[8364,49347,27822,4542,72013],"class_list":["post-2559849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-ice","tag-immigration-enforcement","tag-milan","tag-protest","tag-winter-olympics"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/AP26030736082414.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2559849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/136"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2559849"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2559849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2559853,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2559849\/revisions\/2559853"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2559850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2559849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2559849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2559849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}