Alexander Abnos

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Football Weekly · Is the USA ready for the World Cup? – Football Weekly podcast · 13 May 2026 podcast

Kansas City is building a whole bus network in a city that has no real functional public transportation to speak of outside of one streetcar line downtown.

And to access it for the duration of the tournament, you'll need to pay something like 50 bucks.

And that's for unlimited rides.

Now, 50 bucks is not nothing, but it is...

Considering that they're creating something from nothing and allowing you unlimited access to it for the tournament, it's a little bit closer to what you would expect to pay for that.

Yeah, I mean, you're totally right that ICE is not quite as in the focus as it has been.

And certainly when we spoke in Austin and in the months previous, they are still very active.

ICE raids have not gone away.

These things have not stopped happening.

They're maybe a little bit less in frequency, a little bit less in headlines.

And personally, I've always been a little bit dubious of the idea that they would use the World Cup as a mass staging ground for raids.

I think that this is not an unreasonable fear.

I just don't see it happening for a number of reasons, mainly because...

it would cast FIFA in a really, really bad light.

It would end up blowing back on the Trump administration in a way that I think they really wouldn't enjoy.

And also, this has been a fear for every major event that's happened in the US since Trump took over for his second term.

It was a fear for, I think, both Super Bowls, or at least, yeah, certainly the most recent Super Bowl, there was a

There was a fear that ICE would have large scale operations outside of San Francisco.

That ended up not really happening.

There was a fear that they would be doing similar sort of operations outside of Club World Cup games.

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