Los Angeles Dodgers denied the entrance to their stadium to ICE agents

Japanese Shohei Ohtani, figure of the Los Angeles Dodgers.

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The Los Angeles Dodgers, current Baseball Leagues champions, said Thursday that they denied the entrance to their stadium to a group of agents of the Customs Immigration and Control Service (ICE), who presented themselves on Thursday at the entrance of Dodger Stadium and requested permission to enter the parking lot, the team reported on their social networks.

“The organization denied the entrance to our property,” the Dodgers reported, which guaranteed that the game scheduled for Thursday night against San Diego's parents will take place normally. Photographs and videos spread on social networks showed a row of trucks without badges and ICE agents masked in one of the stadium entries.

A concentration of protesters that chanted: “Ice out of Los Angeles.” The Californian city, the second most populated in the United States, has become the epicenter of the detention operations of undocumented people launched by President Donald Trump throughout the country.

In response, numerous protests against the raids that have included some isolated violent incidents have been recorded in Los Angeles.

In addition to mobilizing ICE agents, Trump ordered the deployment in Los Angeles of thousands of National Guard troops and hundreds of Marines to quell the demonstrations, a measure that faced him with the authorities of the city and the governor of California, Gavin Newsom.

“It's a 100%betrayal”

The popular Dodgers, who have a huge Latin hobby, have received criticism in recent days for not having pronounced in support of immigrants in their city. Until Thursday, the Dodgers had not made any official statement regarding the raids.

Even so, the tense situation that the city broke into the Dodger Stadium in the prolegomena of Saturday's game, when the Latin pop singer Nezza challenged the leadership of the Dodgers and sang the United States national anthem in Spanish.

“I felt it was my duty to represent my people,” said the artist of Dominican ancestry about the controversy that followed her performance. “I will regret my life if I don't support my people today.”

This Thursday, after ICE agents left the immediate vicinity of the stadium, a protester told AFP that she felt disappointed with her team.

“They have been very silent since these ICE raids began, and I think it is very hypocritical for their part, not saying anything when most of their fans are Latin here in Los Angeles,” Paola told AFP, that he only wanted to share his first name. “It feels like a betrayal one hundred percent. I was born and grew here, I have always supported them and do not go out to support us at this time is crazy.”

Kike Hernández, from the Dodgers, raised his voice

Dylan Hernández, a sports columnist of the Los Angeles Times, also harshly criticized the position of the Dodgers before Trump's anti -immigration policy. “The Dodgers boast that more than 40% of their followers are Latin, but they do not even bother to offer words of comfort to this shaking community,” Hernández wrote. “What ungrateful. What disrespectful. What cowards.”

While the Dodgers were silent, Puerto Rican Kiké Hernández, one of the Fags of the franchise, did lashed out at the raids in an Instagram message.

“I am sad and enraged by what is happening in our country and our city,” the player wrote. “This is my second home. And I cannot bear to see how it is violated, discriminated against, abuse and destroy our community. All people deserve to be treated with respect, dignity and human rights.”

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