ICE agents will conduct enforcement operations at Super Bowl LX, official says

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) confirmed that ICE agents volition behaviour enforcement astatine Super Bowl LX successful Santa Clara, California, connected Feb. 8.

Tricia McLaughlin Yoho, Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs for the DHS, told TMZ Sports, "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. 

"Our ngo remains unchanged."

Thus, ICE volition beryllium a disposable beingness astir Levi’s Stadium earlier the crippled betwixt the New England Patriots and Seattle Seahawks, winners of their respective conferences, aft Sunday’s contests.

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Gregory Bovino, main patrol cause of the El Centro Sector and commandant of Operation At Large CA, marches with national agents toward the Edward R. Roybal Federal Building successful Los Angeles connected Aug. 14, 2025. (Carlin Stiehl/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

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 connected "The Benny Show" podcast. "Not the Super Bowl and obscurity else. We volition find and deport you. That is simply a precise existent situation."

This directive from President Donald Trump comes aft helium precocious said helium would beryllium boycotting the Super Bowl, portion slamming the halftime amusement prime of Bad Bunny and present Green Day.

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Trump attended past year’s crippled betwixt the Philadelphia Eagles and Kansas City Chiefs successful New Orleans, Louisiana.

"It’s conscionable excessively acold away," Trump told told the New York Post. "I would, I’ve [gotten] large hands [at] the Super Bowl. They similar me.

"I would spell if, you know, it was a small spot shorter."

Trump has openly criticized Bad Bunny since helium was chosen, telling Newsmax, "I don’t cognize who helium is," contempt his monolithic popularity astir the globe.

Bad Bunny accepts the grant for champion música urbana medium for "Un Verano Sin Ti." (Robert Hanashiro / USA TODAY NETWORK)

"I don’t cognize wherefore they’re doing it. And past they blasted it connected immoderate promoter they hired to prime up entertainment. I deliberation it’s perfectly ridiculous."

Green Day, then, was selected successful the past week to play earlier kickoff astatine Levi’s Stadium. Both Bad Bunny and Green Day person been vocal astir their dislike of Trump.

Bad Bunny, the Grammy-winning Puerto Rican creator whose commencement sanction is Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, caught flak from Trump and his supporters fixed his nationalist comments astir the president and his administration. The 31-year-old, who has won 3 Grammys, expressed fears astir ICE, which is wherefore helium decided to bash a residency successful his autochthonal Puerto Rico to debar stops successful the United States.

"But determination was the contented of, like, f---ing ICE could beryllium extracurricular [my concert]. And it’s thing that we were talking astir and precise acrophobic about," helium told i-D.

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell addressed the contention surrounding the prime of Bad Bunny backmost successful October 2025 during the yearly Fall League Meeting.

U.S. President Donald Trump walks onto the tract anterior to Super Bowl LIX betwixt the Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles astatine Caesars Superdome connected Feb. 9, 2025 successful New Orleans, Louisiana. (Jamie Squire/Getty Images)

"It’s cautiously thought through," Goodell said of the decision-making process for the halftime show. "I’m not definite we’ve ever selected an creator wherever we didn’t person immoderate blowback oregon criticism. It’s beauteous hard to bash erstwhile you person virtually hundreds of millions of radical that are watching.

"[Bad Bunny] is 1 of the starring and astir fashionable entertainers successful the world," the commissioner said. "That’s what we effort to achieve. It’s an important signifier for us. It’s an important constituent to the amusement value."

The Super Bowl usually requires a beardown logistical plans for instrumentality enforcement, wherever authorities agencies assistance section authorities support a harmless situation for the thousands converging connected the big city.

A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) cause waits arsenic a radical of undocumented men, not pictured, are deported to Mexico astatine the U.S.-Mexico borderline successful San Diego, California, U.S., connected Thursday, Feb. 26, 2015. (David Maung/Bloomberg )

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"Super Bowl information volition entail a full of authorities effect conducted in-line with the U.S. Constitution," McLaughlin Yoho added.

"Those who are present legally and are not breaking different laws person thing to fear."

Fox News' Brie Stimson contributed to this report.

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