While FIFA and television operators spread advertisements of the Club World Cup, a very different sequence is being recorded in the streets of Los Angeles, one of the twelve headquarters of the appointment that begins this Saturday and that has its first big big plate on Sunday 15. A PSG – Atlético de Madrid that is played precisely in Florida. Specifically, the Rose Bowl stadium in Pasadena, about 30 kilometers from the epicenter of protests that seek to check the migratory policy of Donald Trump.
Why have riots occur?
Van ya Five days of protests derived from the operations of the Customs Immigration and Control Service (ICE) developed last Friday. Half a hundred people were arrested while registration orders were executed in different places, both particular and work. It was the fuse that turned on to A storm of disturbances that has been aggravated over the days. There have also been looting in stores, which has led the Pentagon to mobilize 700 Marines of the National Guard to protect government buildings.
The plan had been forged since recent weeks, when the Trump government made several changes in the migratory system for Force more arrests. The problem has been generated when, according to humanitarian organizations, arrests of workers have been carried out that are not a risk, unlike other hazardous profiles detected in an operation against citizens without documentation. This has caused a spiral of violence that has been directed to places as a detention center of Los Angeles, which dawned with the motto 'Our City' (“Our city”), painted on its facade.
Los Angeles contagion effect to other cities
This has caused an open and direct confrontation between the authorities. The governor of California, Gavin Newsom, of the Democratic Party, illegal described the use of marines in active duty and assured that he will file a lawsuit to prevent his deployment. In the same line, the mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass, who also has also said accused of Trump's government to sow chaos in the largest city in a country where the infection of the algaradas is taking place.
In San Francisco, more than 150 people were arrested Sunday, according to local authorities and in New York, where multiple arrests have been made. Similar episodes have registered in Dallas, Boston, Seattle, Pittsburgh, Charlotte or Washington DC, some of them, cities that belong to the 12 headquarters map in which the Club World Cup is played.
The US will be the capital of the sport over the next few yearswelcoming the 2026 World Cup and closing the cycle with Los Angeles 2028, hence all eyes are put in their ability to respond to conflicting security episodes such as those representing the disturbances of California. Football, with a strong Latin connection, both in the stands and in the field, has also been a land paid to protest.
Solidarity by Los Angeles FC
In the midst of the chaos that was lived in the downtown area of Los Angeles, a match between the LFC premises, the last team to achieve a ticket for the Club World Cup Vía Repessca, and Sporting Kansas City, within a new day of the Major League Soccer 2025, which does not stop. The Los Angeles franchise itself supported an initiative of its followers, which They denounced the raids under the slogan “shoulder shoulder” and loading the ICE. “When our city feels fear and uncertainty, LAFC joins shoulder shoulder with a member face of our community,” said the official positioning of the entity.
The players of the 'Black & Gold' team have not been oblivious to this situation, in which some of their compatriots have been involved. “We are united and we give it to those who are soon having a bad time through the situation,” said Colombian central Eddie Segura after 3-1 achieved against Sporting Kansas City. “We miss you out there, but we are united. We are all putting solidarity in these difficult situations And I hope things can be resolved well. That they do not continue to suffer with everything that is happening, ”he said, collecting the discomfort of the stands and a part of the American society that has convulsed just four days of the Club World Cup.
