Overview
- A coalition including the ACLU of Florida and the Florida Immigrant Coalition issued a statewide advisory telling international tourists to reconsider travel for Florida’s seven World Cup matches.
- The groups cite reports of racial profiling, wrongful detention, and deportation linked to expanded local–federal enforcement and to detention sites such as the so‑called Alligator Alcatraz.
- The advisory recommends that visitors carry identification at all times, register with their consulates, and exercise extreme caution while traveling in the state.
- Organizers say they are not calling for a boycott but have not ruled it out, while Florida’s tourism agency dismissed the warning as a politically motivated stunt.
- FIFA declined to comment as its president has said fans are welcome, and the White House has a World Cup task force but has not publicly pledged to pause immigration operations or extend fan exemptions under current travel restrictions.