WASHINGTON — Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin told Breitbart News that the “biggest issue” federal agents are facing in securing the events around the FIFA World Cup in North America in 2026 is “counterfeit tickets” that patrons are getting duped with.
“We have a huge amount of counterfeit that comes in with this,” Mullin told Breitbart News. “People don’t realize this but counterfeit tickets—which is a major issue, that’s probably the biggest issue we have right now, is counterfeit tickets. The barcode, we saw this issue, but we were having the barcode that was getting you into the fan fest but it wouldn’t get you into the stadium and so people were buying these tickets thinking they were buying actual tickets and they were expensive. These tickets are expensive and so the counterfeit of it—which is part of ICE’s job, which HSI, we’ve been having to deal with.”
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