Put them on ice
The world's best Olympians are soon heading off to Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, for the snow, ice and also ICE. Sadly since the 1972 Munich massacre, security is needed but does that justify ICE's presence? How does that support the motto "Faster, Higher, Stronger — Together"?The United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is currently busy with taking a five-year-old boy and his father into detention and shooting innocent people but then they're off to Italy.Custom enforcement usually happens at the border of your country or an airport not on a snow-bound mountaintop, so why ICE? Immigration enforcement used to mean stopping unwanted people getting into your country although now it seems to concentrate on shipping out thousands of people without reason. It also doesn't usually happen on top of a mountain.Is this going to be an extra encouragement to their athletes, 'you don't win a medal, you don't come home'?There is no reason for ICE in Italy nor is there any adequate reason for ICE as it is now, in America.Dennis Fitzgerald,Melbourne, Australia
The world's best Olympians are soon heading off to Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, for the snow, ice and also ICE. Sadly since the 1972 Munich massacre, security is needed but does that justify ICE's presence? How does that support the motto "Faster, Higher, Stronger — Together"?The United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is currently busy with taking a five-year-old boy and his father into detention and shooting innocent people but then they're off to Italy.Custom enforcement usually happens at the border of your country or an airport not on a snow-bound mountaintop, so why ICE? Immigration enforcement used to mean stopping unwanted people getting into your country although now it seems to concentrate on shipping out thousands of people without reason. It also doesn't usually happen on top of a mountain.Is this going to be an extra encouragement to their athletes, 'you don't win a medal, you don't come home'?There is no reason for ICE in Italy nor is there any adequate reason for ICE as it is now, in America.Dennis Fitzgerald,Melbourne, Australia
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