Agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) are taking their act on the road and heading overseas, and some Europeans aren’t too happy about it. Let the pearl clutching begin.
As is custom, a contingent of ICE agents, specifically from the agency’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) unit, are heading to Italy to help with security at the Winter Olympic games in Milan. HSI focuses on cross-border crimes, as opposed to the Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) unit, which is responsible for apprehending illegal aliens in the United States. The two units are completely separate arms of ICE.
The important distinction between the two units seems to be lost on some European officials, who are in full panic mode.
It turns out the pearl clutching by many Europeans is all for naught, as the HSI agents will be operating from a control room at the U.S. Consulate in Milan as it provides security support for American diplomats attending the Games, and will not, in fact, be raiding private residences and frog-marching Europeans to the gallows.