ICE Will Reportedly Have No Raids or Presence Planned for Super Bowl LX

The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency is reportedly not planning to conduct any operations at Super Bowl LX, despite previous comments from the Department of Homeland Security officials.

The Washington Post obtained a memo from the game’s host committee earlier this week that contradicted previous statements from DHS Secretary Kristi Noem and DHS adviser Corey Lewandowski, who hinted ICE would have an increased presence at the game taking place at the Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California.

“Public safety is our top priority for Super Bowl LX. We have been in daily contact with the NFL, which has confirmed the following with the Department of Homeland Security: There are no planned ICE immigration enforcement operations associated with SBLX,” the memo reads, per People.

The memo reportedly continued, “[In] coordination with NFL security and local law enforcement, DHS will have federal agents at the Super Bowl to keep fans safe… consistent with past Super Bowls and comparable to how DHS protects other major sporting events like the Olympics and World Cup.”

These statements echo previous comments made by NFL head of security Cathy Lanier at a February 2 press conference in San Francisco.

“There are no planned ICE or immigration enforcement operations that are scheduled around the Super Bowl or any of the Super Bowl-related events,” she said, per Reuters.

Although there will be an increase in federal agents maintaining security at the big event, ICE will reportedly not be among them.

“There is not ICE deployed with us at the Super Bowl and I don’t believe there has been in the last several,” Lanier added.

According to People, Noem and Lewandowski appeared separately on The Benny Show October 2025 — not long after Latin music artist Bad Bunny was announced as the Super Bowl halftime show performer —where they said ICE would indeed have a presence at the game. However, the outlet notes those appearances were before widespread protests of ICE broke out across the country.

NFL commissioner Roger Goodell spoke at a different press conference in which he discussed the security at the game.

“Security is obviously one of the things we focus on the most. It’s a SEAR (Special Event Assessment Rating) 1 level event that involves unique assets at the federal levels, state level and the local level all working together,” he said. “I see no change in that in the preparations for the Super Bowl. We have not seen that.”

“We are working with all three of those levels and doing everything we can to make sure it’s a safe environment and the federal government is a big part of that, including this administration and every other administration before that,” Goodell concluded. “I think SEAR 1 has probably been the category we had since at least the turn of the century, if not before that. So, I just anticipate we’ll continue to do the work to make it the safest event.”