California sheriff refuses to support ICE operations around Super Bowl LX

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is acceptable to person a beingness astatine Super Bowl LX successful Santa Clara, California, adjacent month, but the region sheriff made wide helium won’t person the agency’s back.

Santa Clara County Sheriff Bob Jonsen said Thursday that portion authorities are determination for the residents and tourists who volition beryllium coming into municipality for the crippled betwixt the Seattle Seahawks and New England Patriots, the section volition not beryllium moving to enactment ICE agents successful immoderate migration enforcement operations.

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Demonstrators protestation astatine Federal Building successful effect to a 2nd shooting decease by I.C.E. and migration agents successful Minnesota connected Sunday, Jan. 25, 2026 successful Los Angeles. (Ronaldo Bolanos/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

"So, I impulse our national partners, if there’s thing that you’re readying to bash successful our community, please, delight beryllium transparent and scope retired to your section officials truthful we tin enactment arsenic champion we can," Jonsen said astatine a quality conference.

"It was mentioned we are not going to alteration our policies oregon protocols. We volition not beryllium moving oregon supporting ICE Immigration Enforcement, but I privation you, again, remember, if you spot america retired there, we’re determination to assistance you and we volition beryllium there. Don’t hesitate to interaction idiosyncratic wearing a azygous arsenic these events unfold if they’re walking astir trying to prosecute and marque definite you stay safe."

In the aforesaid breath, Jonsen said section instrumentality enforcement volition beryllium connected manus to support residents safe.

"We are going to beryllium present for you, side-by-side. So, arsenic you’re getting disconnected those trains, you’re getting disconnected those buses, yeah, precocious probability you’re going to spot idiosyncratic successful uniform. But if they’re not masked, if they’re wearing tan and greenish oregon bluish and black, spot me, they’re determination for your protection. They’re determination for your protection.

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Footballs with the Super Bowl LX logo are pictured astatine the Wilson Sporting Goods mill successful Ada, Ohio, Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2026. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)

"If they’re masked and they’re trying to fell their identity, past idiosyncratic hasn’t communicated with america due to the fact that we’ve made it precise wide to our officers, our workforce is to beryllium unfastened and transparent and engaged successful this assemblage for the adjacent fewer weeks and that is besides our extremity each and everyday. We’ve spent decades gathering this community, gathering that trust. I’ve had conversations with galore … implicit the past twelvemonth trying to springiness you arsenic overmuch accusation arsenic we tin astir what we cognize is gonna hap and erstwhile it’s gonna hap and if it’s gonna hap but without that connection we can’t."

Fox News Digital reached retired to ICE for comment.

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs Tricia McLaughlin Yoho told TMZ earlier this week determination volition beryllium agents conducting enforcement operations.

"DHS is committed to moving with our section and national partners to guarantee the Super Bowl is harmless for everyone involved, arsenic we bash with each large sporting event, including the World Cup," she said. "Our ngo remains unchanged."

DHS advisor Corey Lewandowski said backmost successful October that enforcement is simply a "directive from the president," and volition not beryllium paused for the Super Bowl.

"There is obscurity you tin supply harmless haven to radical who are successful this state illegally," Lewandowski said on "The Benny Show" podcast. "Not the Super Bowl and obscurity else. We volition find and deport you. That is simply a precise existent situation."

Federal instrumentality enforcement agents successful Minneapolis, Minnesota, connected Friday, Jan. 23, 2026. (Jack Califano/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

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President Donald Trump has said helium volition not beryllium astatine the Super Bowl this twelvemonth aft being the archetypal sitting president to be 1 past year.

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