Immigrant Groups Issue Travel Warning Ahead of FIFA World Cup Games
Advocates say recent ICE enforcement puts fans and workers at risk, and they are urging FIFA sponsors to back an ICE Truce.
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Immigrant groups issue travel warning ahead of FIFA World Cup games
New England-based immigrant support groups are warning FIFA World Cup fans to know their rights before traveling to the United States. The groups say federal ICE agents have engaged in racially motivated arrests of people with no criminal background, causing physical and psychological harm. Panagioti Tsolkas, communications manager for the Maine Immigrants’ Rights Coalition, said tourists should have an emergency contingency plan in case they ar…
On Thursday, June 11, Human Rights Watch (HRW) called on FIFA sponsors to support “a truce” by immigration authorities (ICE) during the football World Cup matches to be held in the United States.This “tregua” would imply a public commitment on the part of federal authorities in the United States “to refrain from carrying out migration control operations at all World Cup events and venues,” according to HRW and the Sport & Rights Alliance. In a s…
Rights group urges FIFA World Cup sponsors to demand 'ICE truce'
'FIFA’s corporate sponsors together pay billions of dollars because they want to be associated with ‘the beautiful game,’ not the US government’s cruel immigration crackdown,' says Human Rights Watch official
“Keep the Game Beautiful”: Why ICE Crackdown & FIFA Greed Could Spoil the World Cup
“People are really, really afraid … that ICE will go and raid communities where people are watching and gathering together” to watch the FIFA World Cup, says Nelini Stamp. She is an organizer with the Our Copa campaign, a grassroots initiative that aims to protect immigrant fans, center the sport’s working-class roots, and host accessible local watch parties during the World Cup. “We will keep each other safe as much as possible during these gam…
World Cup: FIFA Sponsors Should Back an ICE Truce
The FIFA Men’s World Cup corporate partners and sponsors should join calls for an “ICE Truce,” a public commitment from federal officials to refrain from immigration enforcement operations at all World Cup events and venues.
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