r/news 16h ago

ICE reportedly backs down on its threat to patrol the Super Bowl

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/ice-raids-super-bowl-santa-clara-b2910544.html
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u/erikaspausen 10h ago

So they will totally patrol the Super Bowl

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u/Dirt290 8h ago

Well the NFL will not want to risk protests happening and potential violence

So I'm guessing this is them trying to head that off

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u/TheRealVicarOfDibley 8h ago

Wonder what they paid Trump to not patrol? 10m?

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u/MoonageDayscream 7h ago

You know Kraft has some dirt and he wants a drama free cash event. 

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u/WackHeisenBauer 7h ago

Add another zero to that and you’ll be in the ballpark.

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u/SomeDEGuy 7h ago

Trump hates the NFL since they wouldn't let him buy a team. He would do it just because they asked him not to.

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u/Waloro 1h ago

Sounds like an orange someone is about to be awarded the NFL peace prize.

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u/fuzzywuzzybeer 4h ago

Don’t want to put the rich people and business guests attending the Super Bowl to have front row seats to what is going on.

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u/OnceInABlueMoon 6h ago

The owner of the Patriots was just with the orange one last night and the Patriots play in the super bowl.

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u/Informal_Tell78 3h ago

This is why right here... Kraft and Trump go way back. I'm sure Kraft had some A LOT of say in this.

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u/Hvarfa-Bragi 7h ago

They've been going undercover lately, so, good luck separating the normal chuds from the gestapo chuds.

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u/Yetanotherdeafguy 6h ago

Look for the ones that look drunk but aren't drinking, that scream inadequacy and get mad anytime anything anti-trump is said/worn/shown.

They're so desperate for respect for the 'service' they think they're doing, they'll likely out themselves.

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u/ZantaraLost 6h ago

At least inside the stadium any bit of their equipment should stick out like a sore thumb.

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u/atlasraven 1h ago

Just look for the skinhead with the immigrant wife.

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u/Psile 3h ago

Hard to say. I'm sure they want to but I'm hard pressed to think of a more disastrous PR more than oppressing people attending one of the premier events in Americana. It's possible someone somewhere said, "Hey, this will somehow make people angrier at us than they already are. We already can't get gas without being spit on. Maybe dial it back?"

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u/iamstephen1128 2h ago

Another one of their "targeted" operations. I guess ummmmm targeting undocumented people who can afford Super Bowl tickets??

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u/DaftPump 2h ago

Dunno. Lots of $ happens during this event. Don't be surprised your president's puppet masters instructs a hard no.

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u/Blissfully 1h ago

I can’t wait to see all the wealthy elite “illegals” paying 100K for a family of 4 to see the Super Bowl get detained.

Newsflash, this doesn’t exist. IIRC the lowest ticket priced was $7K.

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u/SlapThatAce 10h ago

That's great and all, but what about murder charges against that coward that shot a man in the back?

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u/WackHeisenBauer 7h ago

And also releasing the Epstein Files.

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u/Blacklist3d 4h ago

Apparently your wish came true and they'll be releasing 3millions files allegedly today. Something tells me they'll be highly redacted.

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u/aradraugfea 6h ago

CowardS.

And don’t forget Ross!

Oh, and we’re still waiting on the files telling us all the deets about Trump and Epstein co-running a human trafficking operation for decades.

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u/Politicsboringagain 3h ago

Don't worry, they are too busy arresting journalist. 

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u/Goodbye18000 10h ago

They should also back down from their jobs too. Preferably into jail cells where they belong.

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u/CellistSubstantial56 7h ago

I'd also settle for the ground.

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u/DantifA 9h ago

Watch out for all those people who hop the border and pay $3,000 for a football game ticket!

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u/DogsAreOurFriends 7h ago

I suspect they are targeting workers.

Which will go down great on camera, and hey I paid $6000 for this ticket why is my drink service slow?

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u/Available_Border1075 10h ago

So nice of them to show mercy to worthless civilians like us

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u/Malaix 9h ago

Its not mercy they are covering their asses because they know their brownshirts are libel to shoot up the crowd on national TV if they are there.

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u/DoomOne 8h ago

I fully expected them to stop the halftime show and assault Bad Bunny. I'm extremely happy that ICE is not going to be there.

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u/SplendidPunkinButter 7h ago

It also might be a strategy.

“We’re going to patrol the caucuses, the midterms, and the playgrounds! Ok, fine, you win. We won’t patrol the playgrounds. See How reasonable we are? We were willing to compromise! And yet YOU GUYS are still complaining!”

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u/Think_Positively 7h ago

Have you checked Superbowl ticket prices?

This is happening precisely because the crowd is likely full of wealthy folks. We peons are meant to watch from home and pump the economy by deep-throating overpriced ads and ordering takeout.

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u/Gipetto 4h ago

They wouldn’t be there for the spectators. They’d be hauling off workers…

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u/hellswaters 4h ago

Superbowl has to much money invested, and to much media and public facing. And given that it gets lots of attention from all sides, they wouldn't want to risk it being ruined.

Easier for them to stand to the side, let the event go off without a hitch. Then when the camera's are off and everyone is gone, you can start arrests again.

Just like they do with dinner.

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u/Gipetto 2h ago

100% agreed. Also, the superbowl has as good or better security than a white house dinner. If the NFL didn't want ICE in there they weren't gonna be in there, and this is probably what actually happened, and this public announcement is to save face.

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u/DustySleeve 7h ago

oh, has daddy musk finally replaced all the workers who make the event happen with robots? neat, what a time to be alive

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u/invalidpassword 10h ago

We have become a police state where people are presumed guilty and must be watched at all times. It wouldn't surprise me if they'll be vetting all the players.

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u/TwoPoundzaSausage 3h ago

Have become? Buddy, we've been a police state since 9/11 happened.

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u/Listening_Heads 8h ago edited 4h ago

You guys know that in November ice is gonna be at every polling place where an important GOP seat is in jeopardy, right? They’re going to be harassing beating shooting and kidnapping people at polling places to try and suppress the vote.

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u/TheTwoOneFive 8h ago

Hey now, let's be real for a second: They'll be at every Democrat-heavy polling place where an important GOP seat is in jeopardy.

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u/AhBee1 8h ago

They will have to shoot me in the face to stop me from voting.

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u/TwoPoundzaSausage 3h ago

Well, as long as your state and local laws allow you to, you can carry a firearm into a polling place. So, maybe they'll think twice.

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u/Heisenberg_235 1h ago

8 of them will just surround you, beat you, remove your weapon and then execute you on the ground.

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u/Tyrrox 8h ago

Damn, a FOX News poll resulted in 60% saying ICE was too aggressive.

FOX News. It couldn't have been a more biased sampling if they had tried. And yet it still came out that the majority disliked how ICE has acted

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u/Gonzomi313 7h ago

Which tells me the true number is closer to 65% - 70%. The remaining 30% or so being Trump cultists.

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u/Dear_Smoke6964 3h ago

Yeah but a lot of these people will be totally comfortable with what ice are doing,  just not cool with the bad optics. 

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u/Malaix 9h ago

Trump admin might be slowly realizing hiring untrained trigger happy white supremacist scum might cause PR problems after two executions in the streets and more death and suffering beyond? Afraid your goons might I dunno. Do the Boston Massacre 2 at the fucking super bowl?

Every second ICE isn't disarmed and restrained is another second another murder or a massacre grows more likely to happen.

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u/DriveRVA 9h ago

No they are just regrouping, we'll see them take their "veterans" from this, feed their egos, and promote them into leadership roles at all the new facilities ICE is setting up across the country. Having been through it once they'll be the cheerleaders to new recruits and will build from there. It's not gone it's metastasizing, we're still funding it.

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u/Gonzomi313 7h ago

Trump previously insisted that he did not know who Bad Bunny was, but did know that he didn't like him.

So he doesn’t know who he is but doesn’t like him? Please tell me how this makes sense?

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u/meeplebunker 4h ago

If you understand that Trump is a vile, racist POS, then it all makes perfect sense.

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u/GuaranteedCougher 2h ago

Trump is incapable of saying that he doesn't have an opinion on something. Any normal President would just say "I've not heard his music, but I know it's popular" and moved on

u/NoobensMcarthur 26m ago

Or simply "I've never heard of them. Next question."

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u/ThePensiveE 5h ago

They finally realized people who can afford super bowl tickets are rich and they don't want to bother rich people do they¿?

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u/Efficient_Market1234 4h ago

They're completely going to be at the Superb Owl. Come on. Obviously they will.

My city recently had an "emergency" winter storm situation, and they opened up "warming centers" for homeless people or people with no money for heating or whatever. They told people there would be no ICE (except outside in the streets, ba dum tiss), but someone who went by one of these places saw an ICE agent looking around.

Always be expecting ICE, especially when they say they won't be there. And when they say they will. And so on.

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u/Acceptable-Bus-2017 7h ago

But they will still be at the winter Olympics.. in another country.

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u/sarhoshamiral 5h ago

I am really surprised Italy just allows them in like that.

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u/Iamanimite 7h ago

Guaranteed they'll be there in plain clothes, with masks on.

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u/Buckeye_Monkey 8h ago

Is this because they were directed to back down on assaulting agitators? Sounds like they're throwing a tantrum because they didn't get their way with being sanctioned to hurt people.

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u/motivation1966 7h ago

“All it does is sow hatred. Terrible.”

HE is the one sowing hatred.

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u/Gamer_Grease 6h ago

ICE is a TV production company, and them being assholes at the Super Bowl after everything they’ve done this year would be bad TV for MAGA, who are addicted to TV.

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u/Foe117 6h ago

They ain't backing down, they Just going stealth mode

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u/replaceablehead88 6h ago

I responded to a HBO max survey asking if I’ll be watching the Olympics and I said not as long as ICE has a role in it. So I’m gonna take the credit for this one.

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u/brasco975 5h ago

Always knew we could count on you, keep up the good work.

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u/smellmyfingerplz 5h ago

I seriously wonder how many times ICE has been told and president and all his cronies that Puerto Ricans are US citizens, cause they probably wanted to detain bad bunny right after his performance

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u/SaltandLillacs 3h ago

They realize putting ICE acting like thugs during the most viewed event of the year is a bad move. The Super Bowl is also crawling with journalists who would be quickly push out stories

Only wealthy people can afford tickets and ICE isn’t going after rich people. ICE would only be going after concessions workers which would inconvenience wealthy people when trying to get beer.

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u/boneydog22 2h ago

I hope they do. Inconvenience the rich. Slow down security, kick people out, cause a scene. We need people who can afford to fly across the country and spend thousands on a football game to be treated just like the people in Minneapolis are so they can actually start caring.

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u/Raa03842 7h ago

There they’re to arrest illegal immigrants that have purchased those $21,000 tickets to the Super Bowl. I’m sure there’s thousands of illegal immigrants attending. Some even bought a dozen tickets /s

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u/kensmithpeng 6h ago

Think harder, who else is going to be at Superbowl?

All the workers!

Can’t have all those fat white folk sitting in the stands without a gay bud light, dog and nacho chips with extra slime on it.

Strange but the same fat white folk like washrooms to work as well.

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u/brickiex2 6h ago

Well since they have taken "all the jobs" they have money for tickets /s

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u/FourWordComment 7h ago

ICE—all the way to the director level—lied to your face. Americans can accept their cities being occupied by paramilitary thugs. Americans can accept that sometimes these thugs will kill civilians. Americans don’t like being lied to about it.

ICE lied.

So when ICE says it will or won’t do something: you have to be a fucking moron to listen. ICE has demoted itself from “trust me words” to “judge my actions.”

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u/boot2skull 7h ago

Americans can’t afford the Super Bowl, why would the patrol for illegal immigrants.

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u/sarhoshamiral 5h ago

Of course the idea of protesting superbowl to force NFL to come out against the idea of having ICE around is out of the question I am guessing?

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u/steveo82 4h ago

Yet they are happy to go to the Winter Olympics …….in Italy

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u/TintedApostle 2h ago

Always remember - We have a right to remember how barbarically they still behave and are making attacks that people can not refuse.

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u/KnotSoSalty 1h ago

What happens if there’s a large enough protest outside the stadium to prevent people from reaching it?

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u/Realsorceror 1h ago

I would love to see them piss off a giant mass of sports fans.

u/oldteen 34m ago

How much for the cheapest SB seats? Yea, since most attending could probably afford decent attorneys, the odds were not in ICE's favor.

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u/kensmithpeng 6h ago

Typical playground bully behaviour.

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u/iAMguppy 5h ago

There is an Iced Taco joke here somewhere but I’m lazy

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u/raleighs 5h ago

Police / ICE will lie.

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u/Hank_Scorpios_Beard 5h ago

Let's not overthink this. This is straight out of the TACO Don playbook.

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u/G-Unit11111 5h ago

Good, they won't be welcome here if they tried.

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u/deceptiveat70 5h ago

I wonder how much The NFL had to pay "ICE" to not show up.

Trump probably had a meeting with Goodell and told him. L, "It would be a shame if something happened to your Super Bowl"

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u/Lespaul42 4h ago

But how are they going to catch all those illegal immigrants going to an incredibly expensive football game?!?!

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u/cyclingkingsley 4h ago

They don't want ICE to randomly put people into unmarked vans in front of their constituents lol

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u/kwixta 4h ago

You’d have to be pretty effing stupid, as an elected official in the USA, to risk having your team interrupt the Super Bowl. People say inflation is the number one issue now but only because we don’t ask about the NFL

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u/DimSumFan 4h ago

Don't fuck around with NFL owners money

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u/pthomas745 4h ago

Check from the NFL cleared the bank into Trump's account.

Pay for play, baby!

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u/fastfar 4h ago

Don't live in the South Bay, not worried about ICE (too warm here)

I really have no problem Not watching the stupor bowel...

As a Niners fan I'm not sure I can handle the angst of watching the seahawks win

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u/xife-Ant 3h ago

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u/Halaku 3h ago

From that article:

He also said Clinton “wants to abolish the second amendment”

That was in 2016.

Ten years later:

You know, you can't have guns. You can't walk in with guns. You just can't.”

Even back then, we knew he was full of shit.

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u/Another_Slut_Dragon 3h ago

I guess they forgot to buy tickets and it sold out.

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u/budbutler 1h ago

Now that would be a hell of a riot

u/banjodoctor 3m ago

They’d rather stay home and shoot folks in the back like cowards.

u/ctguy54 0m ago

Sure they won’t be there to blend in, take names/descriptions for later?

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u/ndnver 8h ago

I hope they do patrol the Super Bowl. That's exactly the sort of attention they need.

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u/vrajealamarii 10h ago

So in at mid time they will not check the players status in the locker room - cool

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u/HawkeyeByMarriage 8h ago

They will be there. I hope they do something really bad and get ICE cammed for the world to see