by: Alex Byington 7 hours ago _AlexByington
Amid public concern about the potential presence of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers at Super Bowl LX , the Bay Area host committee informed local officials that there was “no planned ICE immigration enforcement operations” in connection with Sunday’s game, according to The Washington Post.
The host committee made this declaration in a Friday memo sent to elected officials from Santa Clara as well as neighboring cities San Francisco and San Jose, according to the Post. This memo came following calls with NFL security officials, as well as federal and local law enforcement.
That news comes following widespread concern after U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem pledged ICE officials would be “all over” Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif., while speaking with right-wing journalist Benny Johnson in October.
“Yeah, we’ll be over that place,” Noem told Johnson on Oct. 3, 2025. “And I can, we are going to enforce the law. I think people should not be coming to the Super Bowl unless they’re law-abiding Americans who love this country.”
The host committee’s memo comes amid criticism of ICE operations in Minneapolis, where federal agents have been involved in the shooting deaths of two U.S. citizens — Renee Good and Alex Pretti — in separate incidents last month. Widespread protests have occurred over the past several weeks across multiple cities around the country as Americans have publicly decried the actions taken by ICE and Border Patrol, among other federal agencies involved in immigration enforcement. Those followed prior protests amid ICE operations in U.S. cities such as Chicago and Los Angeles over the past several months.