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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    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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    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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        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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    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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      It already is a whites only event. Do you know how much it costs to get in? Very few POC have that type of disposable income unless they’re already in the “one of the good ones” club.

      If anything this is a shakedown of the NFLs undocumented concession workers.

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    They’re even going to ruin the Super Bowl? Wow, these people are the absolute fucking worst.

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    Really? Lets ask Renėe Good and Alex Pretti about their legal status. Oh that’s right. You can’t. They’re dead.

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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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    Another confirmation that it’s all performative. They just want to be on camera for the biggest TV event of the year.

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    Lmfao holy shit this is gonna get absolutely fucking wild. I would not be at all shocked if ICE incites a mass casualty event - either through just firing into crowds, or inciting a riot, or causing a stampede, or any number of other things.

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    I wonder, if they’re going to try and make a spectacle out of this, if they’ll actually try to take Bad Bunny, even tho he’s Puerto Rican (as if that mattered to them), like so many of these assholes seem to want. Doubt it though because I can’t imagine they’d be stupid enough to piss off the NFL with all the advertising dollars in the Super Bowl.

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    Come to the Super Bowl and enter for a chance to win a free trip to El Salvador! Open to all citizens of the fifty (50) United States, Washington, D.C. who are at least 5 years old. A PURCHASE WILL NOT INCREASE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING, but being brown will.