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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    Smart. Gotta find all those first generation immigrants in Silicon Valley who are buying $6,000 a seat Super Bowl tickets. Makes sense.

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

        ICE won’t care.

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    Right. And how they are going to determine the difference between those fans? Skin color? Seat number? Checking everyone’s passport at entry? Accent?

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    They basically want to make the Super Bowl a whites only event.

    This is just about instilling fear so that people of color won’t attend.

    YOUR COUNTRY IS A WHITE SUPREMACIST HELLHOLE!

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    Member back in the day when we worried a foreign group would attack Americans during the superbowl?

    Good times.

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    Yeah, because illegal immigrant day laborers can afford ~$7,000 for Superbowl tickets in the nosebleed section.
    (my wife just priced tickets over the weekend)

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      They won’t be targeting the wealthy fans. they’ll be targeting the workers in order to punish the “woke” NFL and any associated contractors running the event.

      They may even target players. And there will 100% be a bunch of attempts at funny business on the betting markets.