Amid protests over ICE's presence at the Olympics, will American athletes get booed?

"Many of the officials supporting the nearly 250 U.S. athletes competing in this month's Winter Olympics arrived in Italy last weekend to a greeting they may not have expected: Hundreds of demonstrators packed a square in central Milan to protest the reported plan to deploy U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents during the Games. The first events in the 18-day competition, which will be shared by Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo in the Italian Alps, begin Thursday and the opening ceremony is scheduled for Friday. Against that background, International Olympic Committee President Kirsty Coventry called the agents' involvement "distracting" and "sad.""

""This is a militia that kills. They are not welcome in Milan," Mayor Giuseppe Sala said on local radio ahead of the protests, which took place beneath the neoclassical Porta Garibaldi arch in the Piazza XXV Aprile, named for the date of Italy's liberation from Nazi fascism in World War II. Many demonstrators blew whistles and carried signs of the five Olympic rings rendered as handcuffs above the words "No ICE in Milan." One woman held a handmade poster featuring photos of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, the two Minnesotans killed by federal agents last month, alongside Liam Conejo Ramos, the 5-year-old boy in the blue bunny hat who was taken from his home in Minneapolis to a detention facility in Texas."

""All the videos are public and everyone can see what's happening," Bruna Scanziani, an 18-year-old demonstrator told reporters. "The perception of America has changed." Tricia McLaughlin, an assistant secretary for the Department of Homeland Security, confirmed the presence of ICE agents in Italy to the Athletic, leaving her department, the U.S. Consulate and the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee to try to cool the controversy. DHS said the agents dispatched to Milan are not immigration agents but come from a unit known as Homeland Security Investigations, w"

Officials supporting nearly 250 U.S. athletes arrived in Milan and encountered large protests against a reported plan to deploy U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents during the Winter Olympics. Demonstrators gathered under the Porta Garibaldi arch in Piazza XXV Aprile, blew whistles and displayed signs rendering Olympic rings as handcuffs with slogans such as "No ICE in Milan." Mayor Giuseppe Sala said, "This is a militia that kills. They are not welcome in Milan." International Olympic Committee President Kirsty Coventry called the agents' involvement "distracting" and "sad." DHS confirmed agents were present, saying they come from Homeland Security Investigations rather than immigration enforcement.

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