Councillors look to ban U.S. ICE agents at Vancouver World Cup events

FILE - BC Place Stadium in Vancouver on Tuesday, April 30, 2024. (CityNews Image)

By Aastha Pandey-Kanaan

Posted February 4, 2026 7:46 am.

Two Vancouver city councillors hope their counterparts will join them in a move to ban U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents from the city during the World Cup.

Couns. Pete Fry and Sean Orr say they aren’t needed and would make things worse.

Fry admits it’s concerning that ICE has been deployed to the Winter Olympics, and he does not want to see that in Vancouver.

“We see protests, and we see boycotts resulting from involvement with ICE in different sectors and jurisdictions, so we want to get ahead of that,” he said.

“It’s also a recognition of some of the practices of ICE in the United States we’ve seen on the news. It is not something that I think reflects the spirit and the multicultural and diversity of the City of Vancouver.”

The motion will go to council Feb. 25.

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