I agree. Swapping out one of 16 venues as a World Cup site would be easy. And even if LA remains a site, we would be talking a few standalone games in a stadium with crowds in the 50-70,000 range — and much less if the top teams aren’t slotted into LA. Mexoco, Argentina or Brazil would draw a crowd, but are Mexicans in LA going to turn out for European or Asian teams? For the World Cup, LA is basically the fourth Mexican venue, with photo ops for Karen Bass and Gavin Newsom thrown in.
In any event, a single stadium can be cleaned up and the area secured. The Olympics are different, a massive presence over a much larger footprint.
Are Mexicans going to show up if they fear deportation?