{"id":563998,"date":"2026-02-03T19:48:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T19:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/563998\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T19:48:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T19:48:11","slug":"ices-super-bowl-game-plan-revealed-in-washington-post-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/563998\/","title":{"rendered":"ICE’s Super Bowl Game Plan Revealed In Washington Post Report"},"content":{"rendered":"

Immigration and Customs Enforcement<\/a> is not following through on threats to conduct immigration enforcement operations at Sunday\u2019s Super Bowl, The Washington Post reported<\/a> Monday.<\/p>\n

The newspaper obtained a document from the host committee to elected officials in San Francisco, Santa Clara and San Jose after the committee spoke with NFL security and law enforcement on Friday.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have been in daily contact with the NFL, which has confirmed the following with the Department of Homeland Security: There are no planned ICE immigration enforcement operations associated with SBLX,\u201d the committee\u2019s letter went.<\/p>\n

In \u201ccoordination with NFL security and local law enforcement, DHS will have federal agents at the Super Bowl to keep fans safe … federal security presence at SBLX is consistent with past Super Bowls and comparable to how DHS protects other major sporting events like the Olympics and World Cup.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"SamSam Darnold of the Seattle Seahawks speaks with the media during Super Bowl LX Opening Night on Monday. <\/p>\n

Icon Sportswire via Getty Images<\/p>\n

In October, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem made veiled threats<\/a> to those who are not \u201cAmerican\u201d about ICE presence at the big game in Santa Clara, California. The Seattle Seahawks and New England Patriots have since advanced to the big game.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ll be all over that place,\u201d she told right-wing journalist<\/a> Benny Johnson. \u201cWe\u2019re gonna enforce the law. So I think people should not be coming to the Super Bowl unless they\u2019re law-abiding Americans who love this country.\u201d<\/p>\n

Before that, DHS adviser Corey Lewandowski made a more direct threat when asked if ICE would \u201chave enforcement at the Super Bowl for the Bad Bunny Super Bowl halftime show.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is nowhere that you can provide safe haven to people who are in this country illegally,\u201d Lewandowski replied. \u201cNot the Super Bowl and nowhere else. We will find you. We will apprehend you. We will put you in a detention facility and we will deport you.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a statement to HuffPost, DHS said it would not give details of its Super Bowl operation but added, \u201cThose who are here legally and are not breaking other laws have nothing to fear.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"AA letter from the Super Bowl host committee, obtained by The Washington Post, says federal agents (right) have no planned operations associated with the big game.<\/p>\n

The NFL announcement that Bad Bunny, the Puerto Rican superstar who has been critical of President Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s immigration policies, would be performing the halftime show set off a wave of right-wing objections last year.<\/p>\n

The rapper fired another salvo at Trump and Co. during the Grammy Awards on Sunday. \u201cBefore I say thanks to God, I\u2019m going to say: ICE out<\/a>,\u201d he said. \u201cWe are not savage. We are not animals. We are not aliens. We are humans, and we are Americans.\u201d<\/p>\n

DHS agents have received intensified scrutiny after killing two protesters in Minneapolis last month.<\/p>\n

Protests even reached the Winter Olympics in Italy when people in Milan demonstrated against ICE\u2019s presence<\/a> even though the agency will not be deployed in the streets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Immigration and Customs Enforcement is not following through on threats to conduct immigration enforcement operations at Sunday\u2019s Super…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":563999,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[39],"tags":[20523,1232,62,21686,67,132,68,5964],"class_list":["post-563998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-immigration-and-customs-enforcement","tag-nfl","tag-sports","tag-super-bowl","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-washington-post"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116008432872448305","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=563998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/563999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}