00:00Protesting at the Lombardi Regional Council, Italy's leftist Democratic Party has a message.
00:09We don't want Donald Trump's thuggish squads here, people who kill civilian citizens.
00:15We don't need them. I don't understand what they're even going to do here.
00:19The anger comes after officials said a branch of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency,
00:25or ICE, would help with security at the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics taking place from the 6th to the 22nd of February.
00:33The agency has been criticised for its tactics in a brutal immigration crackdown in the U.S.,
00:39with officers involved in the fatal shootings of two civilians this month.
00:43Milan's mayor also expressed his outrage.
00:46I don't think that they're compatible with our ways of handling such a delicate issue as security.
00:54In a statement, ICE seemed to confirm reports it would be protecting U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance
01:00and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who are expected to attend the game's opening ceremony.
01:06It said its Homeland Security Investigations Unit would be supporting the U.S. Department of State's Diplomatic Security Service,
01:13as well as helping Italy to vet and mitigate risks from transnational criminal organisations.
01:19It added that all security operations would remain under Italian authority.
01:23For Italy's Foreign Minister, it's a standard example of international cooperation.
01:28If they come, it will be to cooperate, not to intervene on the streets but to work together with the police,
01:35like police from other countries.
01:37When there is a major event, international police cooperation is necessary.
01:41U.S. Embassy sources in Rome have said various federal agencies have supported diplomatic security at previous Olympics,
01:49including Homeland Security investigations.
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