The Immigration and Custom Enforcement (ICE) has become notorious due to their activities in Minneapolis where they murdered two American citizens in one month, but Donald Trump and his polarising policies and provocations are dominating, the ongoing Winter Olympics in Italy by deploying some ICE agents to Milan where locals have rightly been protesting their Prescence.

Of all the security agents chosen to protect the official US delegation, ICE is in Milan for the expected opening ceremony visits by Vice President JD Vance and secretary of state Marco Rubio.

Milan mayor Beppe Sala have tried to allay fears about the deployment of ICE militia on Milan, insisting they won’t have powers to conduct policing in the streets. But just their presence here has been a concern for protesting locals.

Add in how tensions have been stoked in recent weeks between Trump and Europe over his threats to capture Greenland, and it raises the potential for a hostile atmosphere greeting American officials and athletes in the opening ceremony at the San Siro home of AC and Inter Milan.

Meanwhile, the women’s ice hockey match between Finland and reigning Olympic champions Canada in Group A has been postponed after one of the teams suffered an outbreak of norovirus.