00:00This was not the best World Cup.
00:02Human Rights Watch's request to FIFA.
00:04The international NGO asked football's highest governing body to observe a minute of silence
00:09Silence before the World Cup final next Sunday, in memory of two immigrants
00:14shot dead by US immigration agents.
00:18Colombian Joan Sebastian Duran was murdered on Monday in Bideford, a small town in the
00:22state of Maine, in the northeast of the country, while the Mexican Lorenzo Salgado died
00:26in Houston last week.
00:28Both cases occurred during roadside checks carried out by immigration police.
00:33ICE.
00:35It would be entirely appropriate for FIFA to hold a minute of silence before the
00:40World Cup final at MetLife Stadium.
00:43There is an ICE detention center just nine miles away, and it's an opportunity to
00:49FIFA to fulfill its promises that this World Cup would defend human rights.
00:54The 2026 World Cup was the first to include human rights criteria in the process
00:59of bidding, a measure that arose after criticism received by previous tournaments
01:04held in Russia and Qatar.
01:06The director of global initiatives at Human Rights Watch noted that the co-organized tournament
01:11The conflict between the United States, Canada, and Mexico will be remembered for the murders and deportations.
01:15from ICE.
01:16The increase in detentions, arrests, and deportations by ICE occurred at the same time as
01:23FIFA pretended that Donald Trump was deserving of an invented peace prize.
01:29So in reality, FIFA has served to cover up the abuses of the Trump administration.
01:34that were primarily directed against migrants and their families.
01:39Several human rights groups held a press conference on Thursday in New York.
01:43in which Daniel Norona, Director of Political Advocacy for the Americas at Amnesty International,
01:48He pointed out that FIFA had not fulfilled its promises to organize an inclusive World Cup.
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