US ambassador says no ICE patrols at Winter Olympics

News of its deployment for the February 6-22 Games in Milan-Cortina has sparked anger in Italy, after the agency's involvement in an often brutal crackdown on immigration in the United States. But US ambassador to Italy Tilman J. Fertitta said ICE's Homeland Security Investigations unit will be "strictly advisory and intelligence-based, with no patrolling or enforcement involvement". "At the Olympics, HSI criminal investigators will contribute their expertise by providing intelligence on transnational criminal threats...