Federal immigration authorities from the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) are set to be deployed around Super Bowl LX in Santa Clara, California, ahead of the championship game on 8 February 2026.
According to FOX News, officials have confirmed that ICE agents will be a visible presence in and around Levi's Stadium, where the New England Patriots and Seattle Seahawks will compete.
102 Comments
DaddleDew@lemmy.world · 215 pts · 218d
If anything has been proven over and over again in the last few months it is that being "legal" does not protect you from ICE.
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz · 95 pts · 218d
Literally the only way they can hit the numbers of deportations needed is by deporting legal citizens too, there simply aren't enough illegal immigrants in the US to fulfill their fascist dreams.
Crackhappy@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 218d
Deporting legal citizens to... where?
Furbag@lemmy.world · 43 pts · 218d
To basically anywhere that will take them.
If we're taking consideration of the lessons we learned from history, when Nazi Germany ran out of other countries to send their undesirables, the death camps were constructed.
So... what happens when other countries get tired of accepting thousands of U.S. deportees?
kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 217d
Miller is waiting for the excuse with plans already made preemptively, I'm sure, the fucking Nazi worm.
OneWomanCreamTeam@sh.itjust.works · 29 pts · 218d
Concentration camp in a country they've never been to.
fartographer@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 218d
”Where you came from," a.k.a. "prison?"
echodot@feddit.uk · 3 pts · 217d
That's why they had to import some from Venezuela.
ceenote@lemmy.world · 90 pts · 218d
I would think the only undocumented immigrants you'd find at the Super Bowl would be the Elon Musk-types.
givesomefucks@lemmy.world · 39 pts · 218d
He thinks it'll be a "show of force" and that people not liking ICE will somehow translate to people liking ICE?
Like, it's fucking ICE, if there's squads of them running around the super bowl, they're gonna escalate to violence all over the place.
Having to pause the Super Bowl because ICE is beating wealthy Americans who can afford SB tickets is not gonna be a "win" with anyone for ICE.
It's going to make it completely unavoidable. I mean, there's a good chance they'd have to call/postpone the game. If ICE kills someone in the stands, are they just gonna keep playing?
Look at the chaos they cause in an empty street, in a packed stadium it's gonna be a million times worse.
village604@adultswim.fan · 6 pts · 218d
That's what they want; an excuse to impose full martial law.
wagesj45@fedia.io · 13 pts · 218d
What excuse do they need? They could just do it now if they want. Killing random civilians isn't going to give them the popular support to maintain martial law. They're fucked in that regard either way.
village604@adultswim.fan · 2 pts · 218d
Like you said, one that will give them popular support, or one where they can murder enough people to scare others from fighting back.
And they're going to keep trying until it works.
CorrectAlias@piefed.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 217d
It isn't going to ever give them popular support, like the person you responded to is saying.
SPRUNT@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 217d
Just because it's never going to work doesn't mean they're not going to keep trying it over and over and over and over and over....
CorrectAlias@piefed.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 217d
I didn't say that they would stop, I said that it wouldn't give them popular support.
echodot@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 217d
Yeah they're going to have squads armed I'm to the teeth ready to just raid the stadium. The trying for violence
AbidanYre@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 218d
Or concessions workers.
eRac@lemmings.world · 17 pts · 218d
The food service staff all go through e-verify, so the government already stated they are authorized to work.
ICE won't care.
Zedstrian@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 84 pts · 218d
Just like Renée Good and Alex Pretti had nothing to fear?
areakode@riskeratspizza.com · 3 pts · 217d
The domestic terrorists who attempted to murder dozens of poor ICE officers? /s
comrade_twisty@feddit.org · 53 pts · 218d
They basically want to make the Super Bowl a whites only event.
This is just about instilling fear so that people of color won’t attend.
YOUR COUNTRY IS A WHITE SUPREMACIST HELLHOLE!
stickly@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 218d
It already is a whites only event. Do you know how much it costs to get in? Very few POC have that type of disposable income unless they're already in the "one-of-the-good-ones" club.
If anything this is a shakedown of the NFLs undocumented concession workers.
lost_faith@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 218d
Do not tune in(no matter what country you live in), do not go. Make it a failure of epic proportions.
Kbobabob@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 217d
Empty stands would make a bigger statement IMO.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 217d
empty seats even bigger statement.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · -1 pts · 217d
the sports is mostly whites only anyways, because they represent the majority as the players.
Hypnotoad_@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 217d
Huh?
kikutwo@lemmy.world · 45 pts · 218d
Tell that to the more than 170 US citizens detained by this gestapo.
floofloof@lemmy.ca · 28 pts · 218d
I'd tell it to all the people ICE has killed, except those people are dead.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 36 pts · 218d
i'm wondering now if i should place a bet on bad bunny being abducted by ice during his performance.
ThatGuy46475@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 218d
Can’t bet on laws being broken, that’s why they got rid of the streaker bet
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 218d
i'd argue they got rid of the streaker bet because that's one you yourself can influence.
treadful@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 217d
I'm ashamed, but a small part of me wants this just for the spectacle.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 217d
I'll bet you a cup of coffee. Are you betting it happens or it doesn't, and if so when
EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 217d
Holy shit just starting at $47 huh?
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 217d
dude at least make it good coffee
EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 216d
That will be $63 for the small, then.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 216d
is that the european or the american small?
EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 216d
The European small
treadful@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 217d
Half of me says it's too stupid. The other half recognizes how wrong I've been about that in the past.
I guess I'd bet on No. But my confidence isn't very high.
sturmblast@lemmy.world · 35 pts · 217d
This is how you start a riot at a national sporting event
DragonAce@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 217d
Thats their goal. The people in MN aren't reacting violently like they wanted, so they have to try their tactics elsewhere.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 33 pts · 218d
Member back in the day when we worried a foreign group would attack Americans during the superbowl?
Good times.
JoMiran@lemmy.ml · 31 pts · 218d
Yeah, because illegal immigrant day laborers can afford ~$7,000 for Superbowl tickets in the nosebleed section.
(my wife just priced tickets over the weekend)
some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 218d
They won't be targeting the wealthy fans. they'll be targeting the workers in order to punish the "woke" NFL and any associated contractors running the event.
They may even target players. And there will 100% be a bunch of attempts at funny business on the betting markets.
Treczoks@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 217d
What a chance for them to alienate an even bigger part of the country.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 218d
Really? Lets ask Renėe Good and Alex Pretti about their legal status. Oh that's right. You can't. They're dead.
Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip · 19 pts · 218d
This should be an Onion article, but it's just real life now...
BradleyUffner@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 217d
Sorry bro. I don't want to get shot.
Or watch football.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 218d
Superbowl Sniper Nest
aramis87@fedia.io · 16 pts · 218d
"Trust us, bro!"
Lucy pulls the football away again
Veedem@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 218d
Another confirmation that it’s all performative. They just want to be on camera for the biggest TV event of the year.
phoenixz@lemmy.ca · 15 pts · 217d
This is the country that wants to have the soccer world cup. Who in their right mind would go watch that? Watch soccer, get arrested and sent to a concentration camp.
Or what about the players?
I actually seriously expect trump to just order the arrest all competing teams for immigration reasons, and then just declare the US winner because there is nobody left to compete.
mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 217d
Something something “Nazi Germany hosted the Olympics” I guess.
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 216d
I would say the old Nazis were more professional, but that's a myth.
samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 216d
They just dressed better.
phoenixz@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 216d
Well yeah, but back them most people were bit ever aware of what fascism can and will do
Now we know
LemmyBruceLeeMarvin@lemmy.ml · 15 pts · 217d
Boycott it
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 217d
Fat fucks who watch football don't care.
KingPorkChop@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 217d
This is exactly what Trump wants because a brown man is going to be there for half time.
hperrin@lemmy.ca · 13 pts · 218d
They’re even going to ruin the Super Bowl? Wow, these people are the absolute fucking worst.
GuyFawkesV@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 218d
To be fair this year’s teams kinda did that on their own.
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works · 12 pts · 218d
Lmfao holy shit this is gonna get absolutely fucking wild. I would not be at all shocked if ICE incites a mass casualty event - either through just firing into crowds, or inciting a riot, or causing a stampede, or any number of other things.
some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 218d
It remains to be seen if any of the shenanigans will be broadcast on live television, seeing as every inch of the stadium is covered by a camera.
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 218d
I am absolutely certain that the tens of thousands of attendees will record anything that they try to pull from tens of thousands of angles.
6stringringer@lemmy.zip · 11 pts · 217d
Give ice something to fear. Wait a second, they are scared of everything & I am afraid that that the NFL has hired a secret security team to counteract this predicted ice folly.
bdonvr@thelemmy.club · 10 pts · 218d
Mostly for show, tickets to this are like $2000 per person at the absolute minimum. They generally prey on the poor.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 218d
they want the crowd to be all the
whiteright peoplemassacre@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 217d
I just heard $7000 for the cheap seats?
bdonvr@thelemmy.club · 2 pts · 217d
This was when I looked months ago before anyone knew who was going.
Now that we know who's going I'm sure demand has spiked.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 217d
so its usually for rich people or upper middle class people.
bdonvr@thelemmy.club · 1 pts · 217d
Oh absolutely. You're generally either rich or win a contest of some kind.
Some people who are somewhat well off might save for years waiting for their team to go. But most are happy to just host/go to a watch party locally.
dhork@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 218d
6stringringer@lemmy.zip · 9 pts · 217d
Fart on them.
BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz · 7 pts · 218d
But the Owner of the NFL gave Trump SO Much Money! WHY is he Ruining HIS Business Too!
inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 217d
Honestly that's going to be potentially Hilarisad.
Alcohol, belligerent fans, and racist, shoot happy ICE.
Just a big ol' idiot racist Trump powder keg waiting to happen.
Treczoks@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 217d
All while Trump is too much of a coward to attend in person. Probably afraid of the public opinion. I wonder why?
borari@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 216d
He’s throwing a tantrum because Green Day is opening it and Bad Bunny is the half time act.
BanMe@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 216d
He also got booed at the last one, every sporting event he's attended he's gotten booed at, we all know how thin his skin is because we can see the blood pooling beneath it.
Treczoks@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 215d
Whoever they are...
ameancow@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 217d
Quill7513@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 217d
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nika_riots
i don't anticipate this. but it's not off the table
ChonkyLincoln@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 216d
Smart. Gotta find all those first generation immigrants in Silicon Valley who are buying $6,000 a seat Super Bowl tickets. Makes sense.
Bebopalouie@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 217d
Hmm, I would file that under no way anyone should go under any circumstances.
JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 218d
"Nothing to hide, Nothing to fear" type shit
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 217d
Terrorism
Tikiporch@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 218d
Come to the Super Bowl and enter for a chance to win a free trip to El Salvador! Open to all citizens of the fifty (50) United States, Washington, D.C. who are at least 5 years old. A PURCHASE WILL NOT INCREASE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING, but being brown will.
dellish@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 217d
This may be the first super bowl I've ever watched, just to see what a monumental fuck up it might become. Either the stands will be half empty, or there will be pockets of violence/shootings all over the place.
lechekaflan@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 216d
Black Sunday except the government is the iron hand of terror.
cannedtuna@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 218d
I wonder, if they’re going to try and make a spectacle out of this, if they’ll actually try to take Bad Bunny, even tho he’s Puerto Rican (as if that mattered to them), like so many of these assholes seem to want. Doubt it though because I can’t imagine they’d be stupid enough to piss off the NFL with all the advertising dollars in the Super Bowl.
OneWomanCreamTeam@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 218d
They've stopped caring who they piss off. If they were afraid of pissing off the NFL they wouldn't be doing this in the first place.
myfunnyaccountname@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 216d
Right. And how they are going to determine the difference between those fans? Skin color? Seat number? Checking everyone’s passport at entry? Accent?
Taldan@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 216d
Skin color, job, or accent. It's all they need for a Kavanaugh stop
Swemg@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 218d
Gonna be a shitshow
tidderuuf@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 218d
Just yell at them that they are Gestapo and their mothers don't love them anymore. Lower their morale because they know they can't touch anyone going into the stadium.
floofloof@lemmy.ca · 11 pts · 218d
I wouldn't be so confident of their self-restraint. Many ICE agents are violent, unstable neo-Nazis who drink on the job.
tidderuuf@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 218d
I understand what you are saying but looking at recent results what's the worse that could happen? A video of them being aggressive at the Super Bowl of all places goes viral, a GoFundMe gets setup in your name, you rake in a couple 100k, maybe you die but your family gonna get a couple Million.
Or realistically you enjoy the Super Bowl and sit there knowing one of those Nazi fucks feels a little sadder inside because we all know how much of snowflakes they really are.
floofloof@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 218d
Well...
Yeah, that bit. For most people that's really the one.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 218d
there are worse things than death.
Sludgehammer@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 218d
On of the wannabe Rittenhouse's opens fire, causing people to flee in panic and the crush leads to mass casualties.
Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io · 3 pts · 218d
Cool, so easy to boycott.
Master167@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 218d
The deportations will continue until polling approves. /s