Dodgers ask feds to leave; team delays initiatives

LOS ANGELES -- Federal agents with the United States Department of Homeland Security acceptable up extracurricular Dodger Stadium connected Thursday morning, sparking outrage connected societal media and triggering much protests against migration enforcement successful the city.

The Los Angeles Dodgers, who said they denied the national agents entree to the stadium's parking lot, subsequently postponed plans to unveil initiatives to assistance section migrant communities.

"Because of the events earlier today, we proceed to enactment with groups that were progressive with our programs," Dodgers president Stan Kasten said. "But we are going to person to hold today's announcement portion we steadfast up immoderate much details. We'll get backmost to you soon with the timing."

A caravan of white, unmarked vans and SUVs arrived astatine the Gate A entranceway of Dodger Stadium, disconnected Vin Scully Avenue, astatine astir 8 a.m., with agents saying they had detainees to process, according to section media reports and firsthand accounts.

The information defender connected manus told the agents that they were not allowed connected backstage property, prompting national officials to ellipse extracurricular to Gate E, the downtown-facing entranceway to the ballpark's parking batch wherever dozens of protesters gathered.

The Los Angeles Police Department aboriginal arrived connected the scene, and everyone was dispersed by astir noon PT.

Thursday's crippled against the San Diego Padres volition beryllium played arsenic scheduled.

The Dodgers initially posted connected their X relationship that the national officials were with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The national agency, however, refuted its beingness astatine Dodger Stadium through its X account.

"False," U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement posted. "We were ne'er there."

The Department of Homeland Security said the agents were with the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP), which attempted to entree the stadium.

"This has thing to bash with the Dodgers," DHS posted to X. "CBP vehicles were successful the parking batch precise briefly, unrelated to immoderate cognition oregon enforcement."

ICE and CBP are some national agencies nether the Department of Homeland Security.

Protests against ICE raids successful Los Angeles began earlier this period aft national agents arrested dozens of workers successful the city. Protesters blocked a large freeway and acceptable cars connected occurrence successful the pursuing days, prompting constabulary to respond with teardrop gas, rubber bullets and flash-bang grenades.

In the aftermath of those protests, and a determination by President Donald Trump's medication to activate much than 4,000 National Guard members and 700 active-duty Marines implicit the objection of metropolis and authorities leaders, the Dodgers caught flak for not making immoderate nationalist statements successful enactment of immigrants.

The squad solidified plans to enactment with migration groups earlier this week and was readying to unveil them Thursday, until the beingness of national agents further inflamed the situation.

Despite the protests, immigration-enforcement enactment has continued passim Los Angeles, with metropolis leaders and assemblage groups reporting ICE beingness astatine libraries, car washes and location betterment stores. School graduations successful the metropolis person accrued information implicit fears of ICE action, with immoderate schools offering parents the enactment to ticker via unrecorded streams.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.