Dodgers turn away ICE agents from parking lot

LOS ANGELES -- The Los Angeles Dodgers enactment said Thursday that it asked U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to permission the Dodger Stadium grounds aft they arrived astatine a parking batch adjacent 1 of the gates.

Dozens of national agents with their faces covered arrived successful SUVs and cargo vans to a batch adjacent the stadium's Gate E entrance. A radical of protesters carrying signs against ICE started amassing soon after, section media reported.

"This morning, ICE agents came to Dodger Stadium and requested support to entree the parking lots. They were denied introduction to the grounds by the organization," the Dodgers said successful a connection posted connected X.

Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said the agents were not trying to participate the stadium.

"This had thing to bash with the Dodgers. [Customs and Border Protection] vehicles were successful the stadium parking batch precise briefly, unrelated to immoderate cognition oregon enforcement," McLaughlin said successful an email.

The squad said Thursday's crippled against the San Diego Padres volition beryllium played arsenic planned.

Television cameras showed astir 4 agents remained astatine the batch Thursday day portion officers with the Los Angeles Police Department stood betwixt them and dozens of protesters, immoderate carrying signs that work "I Like My Ice Crushed" and chanting "ICE retired of LA!"

Councilmember Eunisses Hernandez arrived astatine the stadium and said she had been successful connection with Dodger officials and the mayor's office.

"We've been successful connection with the mayor's office, with the Dodgers, with Dodgers security, astir seeing if they tin get them moved disconnected their backstage property," she told KABC-TV. "Public spot is different. Private spot -- businesses and corporations person the powerfulness to say, 'Not connected my property,' And truthful we're waiting to spot that question hap here."

Protests began June 6 aft national migration raids arrested dozens of workers successful Los Angeles. Protesters blocked a large freeway and acceptable cars connected occurrence the pursuing days, and constabulary responded with teardrop gas, rubber bullets and flash-bang grenades.

The Trump medication has activated much than 4,000 National Guard members and 700 Marines implicit the objections of metropolis and authorities leaders. Dozens of troops present defender national buildings and national agents making arrests.

The demonstrations person been mostly concentrated downtown successful the metropolis of astir 4 cardinal people. Thousands of radical person peacefully rallied extracurricular City Hall and hundreds much protested extracurricular a national analyzable that includes a detention halfway wherever immoderate immigrants are being held pursuing workplace raids.

Despite the protests, migration enforcement enactment has continued passim the county, with metropolis leaders and assemblage groups reporting ICE contiguous astatine libraries, car washes and Home Depots. School graduations successful Los Angeles person accrued information implicit fears of ICE enactment and immoderate person offered parents the enactment to ticker connected Zoom.