ICE arrestó 10,000 trabajadores migrantes durante el Mundial y los aeropuertos de EU colapsaron

During the weeks of the biggest World Cup in sports history, ICE carried out more than 10,000 arrests in just five days. An average of 2,000 arrests per day, not in border areas or in operations against organized crime, but in workplaces, factories, neighborhoods, and even at the airports of the host cities: Los Angeles, Dallas, and Miami. The Mexican workers who cleaned the LAX restrooms at four in the morning, who loaded luggage in Dallas before the first flight of the day, who prepared in-flight catering in Miami with the precision that airline schedules demanded, stopped showing up for their shifts. Not because they found better jobs. Not because they organized a strike. But because the calculation each one made, driven by fear, was perfectly rational: the risk of showing up that day was greater than the risk of not showing up. The operational result was identical to that of a general strike, but without any of the prior warnings that would have allowed airport managers to prepare a response. Wait times at terminals skyrocketed. Flights were repeatedly delayed due to a lack of ground staff. International tourists who landed in Los Angeles and Dallas for the tournament encountered airports with visible and documented operational problems—the exact opposite of what the organizing committee had promised to show the world. The United States hosted the World Cup as a demonstration of its capacity, its grandeur, and its order. What happened at its host airports during those weeks demonstrated something entirely different: the structural dependence of its infrastructure on migrant workers whom the government itself decided to detain en masse. In this video, we analyze how ICE raids during the World Cup caused the visible operational collapse of the host cities' airports, which jobs went unfilled, how the delays manifested themselves, and what this episode reveals about the real economy of the United States and its relationship with Mexican and Latin American migration. Topics: ICE, deportations, 2026 World Cup, US airports, LAX, Dallas, Miami, migrant workers, Mexico, operational collapse, catering, baggage, cleaning, raids, migration.