{"id":65969,"date":"2026-02-10T17:55:36","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T22:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/10\/ice-director-refuses-to-commit-to-pausing-operations-for-2026-world-cup\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T17:55:36","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T22:55:36","slug":"ice-director-refuses-to-commit-to-pausing-operations-for-2026-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/10\/ice-director-refuses-to-commit-to-pausing-operations-for-2026-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"ICE director refuses to commit to pausing operations for 2026 World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Acting director Todd Lyons called ICE \u2018key\u2019 to security<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>2026 World Cup takes place this summer in 11 US cities<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The acting director of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) told a congressional committee on Tuesday that his agency is a \u201ckey part of the overall security apparatus for the World Cup\u201d and refused to commit to pausing operations near games at this summer\u2019s tournament.<\/p>\n<p>The 2026 World Cup will be hosted this summer by the United States, Mexico, and Canada, with 78 of the 104 games taking place in the US. Various entities have estimated that up to 10 million people could visit the 11 US host cities for the quadrennial tournament. However, ICE\u2019s role in Donald Trump\u2019s immigration crackdown \u2013 including an extended and widespread operation in the Minneapolis\/Saint Paul metropolitan area in which two people were killed by federal agents \u2013 has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/feb\/02\/ice-anticipation-and-5000-tickets-guardian-readers-on-their-world-cup-hopes-and-concerns\">raised serious concerns among fans<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/feb\/10\/ice-director-testimony-world-cup-2026-operations\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Acting director Todd Lyons called ICE \u2018key\u2019 to security 2026 World Cup takes place this summer in 11 US cities The acting director of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) told a congressional committee on Tuesday that his agency is a \u201ckey part of the overall security apparatus for the World Cup\u201d and refused to &#8230; <a title=\"ICE director refuses to commit to pausing operations for 2026 World Cup\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/10\/ice-director-refuses-to-commit-to-pausing-operations-for-2026-world-cup\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about ICE director refuses to commit to pausing operations for 2026 World Cup\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}