A canvasser holds World Cup 2026 business tool kits to hand out to small business owners in the Little Haiti neighborhood of New York on May 19, 2026. World Cup fever is beginning to hit New York's immigrant communities where wariness of the Trump administration's deportation crackdown has weighed on foot traffic. In Brooklyn's "Little Haiti," street blocks once busy with merchants were quiet earlier this week. But some are becoming more confident the community will rediscover its joie de vivre as Haiti's first World Cup appearance in more than 50 years quickly approaches. (Photo by ANGELA WEISS / AFP via Getty Images)