Dallas

Dallas is the principal city of the Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) metroplex, the fourth-largest urban area in the United States with roughly 7.8 million people. The city proper has a population of about 1.3 million. Dallas is a major commercial and financial hub, home to more Fortune 500 companies than any other US city except New York, and a significant centre for banking, telecommunications, and technology. The metroplex has grown faster than any other large US urban area over the past decade, driven by domestic migration from higher-cost coastal cities and a business-friendly state tax environment.

The region has a large Latin American population, concentrated particularly in the southern Dallas suburbs and across the metroplex. This demographic context has made the city a focus of scrutiny on immigration enforcement. Amnesty International's March 2026 report identified Dallas as one of three US host cities to have signed an ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) collaboration agreement with local law enforcement, alongside Houston and Miami. The report upgraded overall tournament risk to medium-to-high and noted that no host city with an ICE agreement had published a human rights plan as of its publication on 31 March 2026.

For the 2026 FIFA World Cup, Dallas hosts matches at AT&T Stadium in nearby Arlington, the home of the NFL's Dallas Cowboys. AT&T Stadium, opened in 2009, holds around 80,000 for football and was reconfigured to meet FIFA requirements. Dallas was also specifically named when FIFA's final ticket sales window crashed on 1 April 2026: WFAA Dallas reported fans stuck in queues for over 90 minutes as the system failed on opening.