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Associated Press
Jun 20, 2025, 08:15 PM ET
LOS ANGELES -- The Dodgers person donated $1 cardinal to assistance families impacted by 2 weeks of migration raids successful Southern California.
The defending World Series champion Dodgers besides said Friday that they mean to signifier partnerships with the California Community Foundation, the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor and different enactment to proceed providing assistance to migrant families.
"What's happening successful Los Angeles has reverberated among thousands upon thousands of people, and we person heard the calls for america to instrumentality a starring relation connected behalf of those affected," Dodgers president Stan Kasten said. "We judge that by committing resources and taking action, we volition proceed to enactment and uplift the communities of Greater Los Angeles."
The Dodgers announced the steps successful a five-paragraph quality merchandise that was delicately worded to debar perchance inflammatory governmental terms, and which stopped abbreviated of an explicit condemnation of the national policy. The squad said lone that the fiscal assistance would beryllium provided "for families of immigrants impacted by caller events successful the region."
"I deliberation it's great," Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said earlier his squad faced the Washington Nationals. "I'm definite the wealth is going to beryllium allocated successful the close way. I'm blessed to perceive that the Dodgers person done that, and it's surely the close happening to do."
The Dodgers were concisely astatine the halfway of Southern California's absorption to national migration argumentation erstwhile the squad asked national agents to permission the stadium grounds Thursday aft they amassed astatine a parking batch adjacent 1 of the gates.
Dozens of national agents with their faces covered arrived astatine a batch adjacent the stadium's Gate E entranceway successful SUVs and cargo vans. A radical of protesters carrying signs against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrived soon afterward, and the agents yet left.
Roberts claimed his players haven't extensively discussed the concern successful the clubhouse, but immoderate Dodgers person been paying attention. Enrique Hernández, a Puerto Rico native, sharply criticized the raids connected societal media past weekend. Baseball Hall of Famer Jaime Jarrín, the Dodgers' pb Spanish-language broadcaster from 1959 until his status successful 2022, besides spoke up against the national actions.
Los Angeles politician Karen Bass praised the Dodgers successful the team's quality release.
"I privation to convey the Dodgers for starring with this enactment to enactment the migrant assemblage of Los Angeles," Bass said. "These past weeks person sent shockwaves of fearfulness rippling done each vicinity and person had a nonstop interaction connected our economy. My connection to each Angelenos is clear: We volition instrumentality unneurotic during this clip and we volition not crook our backs connected 1 different -- that's what makes this the top metropolis successful the world."
Fans and lawmakers person called upon the Dodgers for respective days to marque an unequivocal connection of absorption to the raids, fixed their immense Latino instrumentality basal and dense power successful the region. Other teams successful the portion person expressed their solidarity with the migrant community, including Los Angeles FC and Angel City FC.
U.S. Rep. Jimmy Gomez, who represents the Los Angeles area, went connected societal media earlier Friday to inquire the Dodgers to talk up.
"In a metropolis wherever 36% of the residents are immigrants and astir 40% of the team's instrumentality basal is Latino, saying thing is not conscionable disappointing -- it's a betrayal and an insult," Gomez wrote. "Silence is not an option. It's a choice."
