Human Rights Watch is freaking out about what might happen at the 2026 World Cup after ICE grabbed an asylum seeker who showed up to watch the Club World Cup final in New Jersey with his family. The guy got busted for accidentally flying a drone near the stadium, which normally just gets you fined, but cops asked about his immigration status and handed him straight to ICE agents, who tried deporting him back to a place where he might actually get killed.
HRW says local police without 287(g) agreements should not even be asking people about immigration stuff or arresting them over it, and FIFA needs to step up before the World Cup turns into a complete disaster. The Trump administration has been running mass raids and detentions that rights groups keep calling unconstitutional, and judges have already started blocking warrantless immigration arrests because detention centers are apparently disgusting and overcrowded.
HRW says local police without 287(g) agreements should not even be asking people about immigration stuff or arresting them over it, and FIFA needs to step up before the World Cup turns into a complete disaster. The Trump administration has been running mass raids and detentions that rights groups keep calling unconstitutional, and judges have already started blocking warrantless immigration arrests because detention centers are apparently disgusting and overcrowded.
