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.

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    11 hours ago

    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.

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    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.

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      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.

      Something something “Nazi Germany hosted the Olympics” I guess.

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      Thats their goal. The people in MN aren’t reacting violently like they wanted, so they have to try their tactics elsewhere.

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    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.

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      All while Trump is too much of a coward to attend in person. Probably afraid of the public opinion. I wonder why?

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        He’s in such bad shape it takes a procession of tech-priests and servitors just to move him from place to place, a garden of hoses and IV’s strapped to his body under his oversized coats.

        They are going to hide how bad off he is until the day we get that fateful headline that starts with “Donald J Trump, 45th president of the United States…” Etc. Etc.

        They wanted to have someone like Vance already prepared to take the reigns, it’s why they keep sending him out on camera to say the stupidest shit imaginable like how he hates turkey meat, but it’s all landing flat. They can’t find that bottled lightning again that was Trump’s authenticity. Hateful, ignorant, dumb authenticity, but authentic.

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    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.

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    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.

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      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.

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    I would think the only undocumented immigrants you’d find at the Super Bowl would be the Elon Musk-types.

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      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.

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        Yeah they’re going to have squads armed I’m to the teeth ready to just raid the stadium. The trying for violence

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          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.

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            What excuse do they need?

            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.

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        The food service staff all go through e-verify, so the government already stated they are authorized to work.

        ICE won’t care.