This Tuesday, the head of security of the National Football League (NFL), Cathy Lanier, stated that there will be no Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents (ICE) present in Super Bowl LXwhich will take place this weekend in California.
The above, after US media indicated that there would be presence of said ICE personnel, during the match between the New England Patriots y los Seattle Seahawks in it Levi’s Stadiumlocated in Santa Clara.
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During a press conference, Lanier assured that “There are no planned ICE operations or immigration control programmed around the Super Bowl nor in any of the related events.”
Likewise, he added that the security plans for the event The most important annual event on the sports calendar in the United States will be similar to those displayed in previous editions, and that, until now, there were no “known, specific, or credible threats” against its realization.
“There are no planned ICE control activities”Lanier stated. “We are sure of it.”
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As part of the president’s anti-immigrant policy Donald Trumpagents of the ICE heavily armed and hooded They are deployed in different cities Americans where clashes have occurred that have claimed the lives of civilians.
The most recent cases occurred in Minneapoliswhere two American citizens, a woman identified as Renee Good and a man named Alex Pretti, died at the hands of ICE agents during immigration raids in that city, causing public outrage.
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