The NFL said Tuesday there is no planned ICE operation related to Super Bowl LX. Officials also said there are no known game-linked safety threats.
3 There are no known specific or credible safety threats to Super Bowl LX or planned Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations related to the game, officials said Tuesday in San Francisco.
“There are no planned ICE enforcement activities”, NFL chief security officer Cathy Lanier said at the league’s annual public safety news conference at the Moscone Center.
“We are confident of that. Our Department of Homeland Security has been our partner for more than 20 years now. It is made up of more than 20 different departments and will send a variety of different agencies, which does not include ICE.”
Lanier said she doesn’t “believe” ICE was active for other recent Super Bowls.
More than 300 anti-ICE protests were held Saturday throughout the United States in response to the deaths of two activists in Minneapolis and deportation efforts from the Trump administration.
Lanier declined to say if ICE could operate without notification to other agencies working together as part of a comprehensive safety plan.
Jeffrey Brannigan, a federal coordinator special agent for DHS, said he would “defer to” Lanier, when asked if he could make a commitment to no immigration enforcement at Super Bowl related events.
Lanier’s announcement came months after Homeland Security advisor Corey Lewandowski said ICE agents would conduct enforcement at the game. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said a day later that there was “no tangible plan” for agents to be active at Super Bowl LX.
Leavitt deferred to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem when asked Tuesday about ICE’s potential presence at Super Bowl LX.
