Security has ramped up ahead of the NFL’s first-ever game in Brazil after players from the Philadelphia Eagles and Green Bay Packers voiced concerns about safety in São Paulo, according to ESPN. 

The two NFC foes will battle in Week 1 at Arena Corinthians in São Paulo, marking the first NFL game played in South America.

While the NFL continues its global reach, players like Eagles star receiver A.J. Brown have noted a lot of "don’t do’s" have been passed down to those heading there. 

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"We had a meeting with a whole bunch of ‘don’t do’s,’" Brown told reporters, via ESPN. "So, I’m just trying to go down there, win a football game and come back home."

His Eagles teammate, top cornerback Darius Slay Jr., echoed Brown’s comments on his "Big Play Slay" podcast, adding that players are being told to stay put and not walk the streets. 

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"Week 1, I’m looking forward to it, I can’t wait. But man, I do not want to go to Brazil. You want to know why? I’m here to tell you why," Slay explained. "They already told us not to leave the hotel. They told us we can’t do too much going on because the crime rate is crazy."

Slay even questioned why the NFL would want a game in Brazil in the first place, considering the safety concerns. 

"I’m like, ‘NFL, why y’all wanna send us somewhere where the crime rate is this high and we out the country?’ You know, the first thing people are thinking is like some terror could possibly happen," he said. "I told my family do not come down there because I'm not going to be nowhere to be found. I'm going to be in the hotel chilling, minding my business, playing my game after a long 9½-hour flight."

Slay later apologized for his comments, saying he was sorry if he offended anyone via social media. 

But Slay’s concerns are legitimate because he isn’t the only one voicing them. And the São Paulo state government has reacted accordingly. 

"To guarantee the safety of the players, the military police will reinforce the number of personnel upon arrival of the delegations at the Guarulhos Airport and escort the teams to their hotels, training sites and the stadium," it said in a statement, via ESPN.

This isn’t the first time the NFL has had games in locations where safety concerns were brought up, including a stop in Mexico, where games have been played since 2005. 

The Eagles and Packers will be heading to Brazil Wednesday to gear up for the start of the new 2024 NFL season, one in which both teams are expected to be playoff contenders. 

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Vice President Harris’ campaign did not reveal her position on reparations for Black Americans when asked Wednesday by Fox News Digital, despite growing anticipation from progressive advocates after California lawmakers withdrew their reparation bills last week.

During her earlier presidential bid in 2019, Harris, then a U.S. senator representing California, said she supported "some form of reparations" and backed legislation to study the matter further.

Democrat politicians in blue states, including California, in recent years have floated reparations as a way to atone for what proponents describe as a legacy of racist policies that created disparities for Black people in housing, education and health.

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"I think there has to be some form of reparations, and we could discuss what that is, but look, we’re looking at more than 200 years of slavery," Harris said in a 2019 interview with The Root, a website focused on Black culture and politics. "We’re looking at almost 100 years of Jim Crow. We’re looking at legalized segregation and, in fact, segregation on so many levels that exist today based on race and there has not been any kind of intervention done understanding the harm and the damage that occurred to correct [the] course. And so we are seeing the effects of all those years play out still today." 

While Harris has changed tune on some of her previous policy stances, like banning fracking or illegal immigration, she hasn't denounced or commented much further on whether she would push a nationwide reparations effort if elected president.

In an MSNBC Al Sharpton interview during Harris' first presidential run, he asked Harris, "In the area of reparations for descendants of Africans enslaved, if you’re elected president, would you sign that bill if it came across your desk?" 

"When I am elected president, I will sign that bill," Harris responded.

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Democrats on the Hill and in California have pushed for passage of reparations legislation. Last week, a pair of reparations-related bills for the descendants of enslaved Black Americans failed to pass in the California legislature after backers said the bills would not move forward and were at risk of being vetoed by Gov. Gavin Newsom.

Black activists at the California Assembly then threatened a "direct impact" on Vice President Harris' presidential campaign after state Democrat lawmakers shelved the bill.

"We need to send a message to the governor," said a Black woman who is a member of the Coalition for a Just and Equitable California, according to video shared on X. "The governor needs to understand the world is watching California and this is going to have a direct impact on your friend Kamala Harris who is running for president. This is going to have a direct impact, so pull up the bills now, vote on them and sign them. We’ve been waiting for over 400 years."

"We have the votes," they added.

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Meanwhile, Rep. Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y., said in an interview with the Washington Post before Harris became the DNC nominee that more people "would be more politically engaged" if reparations were more front and center in political discourse.

"But it isn’t, so they’re staying home or some are even moving to the Republican Party because it feels like Democrats are taking Black voters for granted," he said.

Last year, Rep. Cori Bush, D-Mo., tried to bring a $14 trillion reparations-related bill to Congress "to eliminate the racial wage gap that currently exists between Black and White Americans," the resolution stated.

Fox News Digital's Bradford Betz and Danielle Wallace contributed to this report.