Los Angeles: Immigration authority is denied access to stadium

In Los Angeles, civil servants from the US immigration authority (ICE) have been denied access to the famous Dodger Stadium. ICE officials came to the stadium and asked for permission to “enter the parking spaces,” said the Major League Baseball (MLB) team on Thursday. However, access to the site was “refused by the organization”. It was also said that the team’s game on the same day would take place as planned.

On recordings in the online networks, a number of non-marked trucks and hooded ICE officials were seen at an entrance to the Dodger Stadium, while demonstrators scanded near slogans such as “ICE out from LA”.

The incident occurred against the background of increased tensions in Los Angeles, where President Donald Trump’s protests were partially converted into violence in recent weeks. The US President then sent soldiers from the National Guard and marine fans in the California metropolis against the will of the local authorities.

Trump had won the presidential election last year with the promise to take action hard against the “invasion” of immigrants without papers. Since taking office, hooded ICE officials have been in immigrants to raids across the country, migrants were partially tied up on hands and feet.

Against the Dodgers had increasingly criticized in the course of the protests. The team has a strong fan base characterized by Latinos-many accuse the baseball team of not officially taking a position against the ongoing raids.

“The Dodgers boast that more than 40 percent of their fan base is Latinos,” wrote, for example, the sports columnist of the “Los Angeles Times”, Dylan Hernandez. However, they didn’t even bother to “give the shaken community” any words of the consolation “. This is “ungrateful, disrespectful and cowardly”.