Gus Kenworthy rips ICE again after getting ‘awful’ messages

Gus Kenworthy, a British-American Olympic skier who will characterize Britain on the 2026 Milan Cortina Video games, doubled down on his criticism of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Monday.

Kenworthy posted a graphic photograph with the textual content “F— ICE” written in urine as he stood over the phrase. He stated within the video posted to his Instagram that he acquired loads of “horrible” messages since he shared the photograph.

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Gus Kenworthy from Nice Britain reacts after his run on February 19, 2022. (REUTERS/Lisi Niesner)

He claimed it was vital to “rise up for what we imagine in and rise up for justice.”

“I additionally assume there’s loads of nuance to it, and I really feel like generally individuals neglect that,” he stated. “So I need to remind everybody that, for instance, you’ll be able to love the US and be proud to be an American – I’m – and nonetheless assume it may be higher and nonetheless assume the nation can enhance.

“And simply since you love America doesn’t suggest that you just assist this administration and assist their insurance policies and their laws and assist the issues that they assist. As a result of I and I don’t assist ICE. And I believe it is completely evil and horrible and terrifying. There have been Americans who’ve been murdered within the streets, executed within the streets, and the officers basically act with impunity as a result of their identities are hidden.”

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) brokers, together with different federal regulation enforcement companies, attend a pre-enforcement assembly on Sunday, January 26, 2025, in Chicago, Illinois, USA. (Getty Pictures)

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Kenworthy alleged that ICE brokers “racially profiled individuals, rounded up and kidnapped black and brown individuals, and put them in unmarked autos with out a warrant and with out possible trigger.”

‘They’re being held with none type of honest trial. It is insane. It is scary. And persons are despatched to international locations they do not even come from. And Americans are getting caught on this.

“And I believe the overwhelming majority of people who find themselves being focused are good individuals, hard-working people who find themselves non-violent and haven’t any felony historical past and simply got here to the US in search of a greater life. And that’s actually the basic story of the US. We’re a rustic of immigrants, and that’s the American dream. And I believe generally individuals neglect that.”

Gus Kenworthy of Nice Britain seems on throughout coaching forward of competing within the Males’s Freeski Halfpipe Remaining throughout the 2025 Toyota US Grand Prix at Copper Mountain on December 20, 2025 in Copper Mountain, Colorado. (Maddie Meyer/Getty Pictures)

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Kenworthy, 34, will compete within the males’s freeski halfpipe occasion.

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