Milan mayor calls ICE

Milan Mayor Giuseppe Sala spoke out Tuesday amid reports that the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement The officers would have a security role during the upcoming Winter Olympics, which begin in Milan on February 6.

“This is a militia that kills,” Sala said in an interview with Italian media. “It is a militia that enters people’s homes signing permits for themselves… It is clear that they are not welcome in Milan, there is no doubt about that.”

“At the Olympic Games, ICE Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) is supporting the US State Department’s Diplomatic Security Service and the host country to examine and mitigate risks from transnational criminal organizations. All security operations remain under Italian authority,” ICE said in a statement to the French news agency News.

Sources at the U.S. Embassy in Rome told The News that ICE would support U.S. diplomatic security details during the Olympics but would not carry out any immigration enforcement operations in Milan.

A U.S. Embassy spokesperson neither confirmed nor denied the reports to News themezone on Tuesday.

Despite his disapproval, Sala wondered aloud during the interview with Italy’s RTL Radio 102: “Will we ever be able to say no to Trump?”

“I think they should not come to Italy because they do not guarantee that they are aligned with our democratic methods of security management,” Sala said. “We can take care of their security ourselves. We don’t need ICE.”

The reports about ICE’s planned role in U.S. security operations during the upcoming Winter Olympics came after Italian state television on Sunday aired a video of ICE agents threatening to smash the windows of a vehicle carrying a state television crew while they were reporting on the events in MinneapolisAP reported.

He fatal shooting by Alex Pretti by Border Patrol agents in Minneapolis over the weekend, less than three weeks after Renee Good, another Minneapolis resident and US citizen, was shot and killed by an ICE officer, have put the city at the center of the US dispute over immigration law enforcement and the tactics of its federal agencies.