Why the LA Dodgers Stood Up to ICE

In Los -Angeles Dodgers long had transactional relations with the city communities Chicano and immigrants. In 1949, the city captured the land at the Dodger Stadium in Chaveza Yara from the Mexican community, which turned the greenery into a “immigrant Shangri”. Families would come to the park and said, “Your uncle lived where the third base line ends at home.”

Then in the 1980s, a young pitcher from Mexico Fernando Walesuel became the Dodgers icon. When Fernandamania arrived, Angenas from Mexican origin filled the stadium rafters, and the team welcomed the crowds. Today, to go into the game, it will see the multi -generation families Chicano, carved in the Dodgers blue and using Dodger dogs. They are the heart and soul of this fan base, and therefore the pressure in this modern champions of the world series in this modern climate of terror, which is facing the Latin American immigration communities.

People in the city were waiting for team winner Mark Walter to step up and say something about the riots in the Los Eandles. And yet, if their fans were thrown into trucks without badgers, masked, armed ice agents – or at least that’s what these bandits said; There is no way to confirm who they actually – Dodgers tried to stay for this.

This is not the case. June 20 Dodgers announced What they will give $ 1 million to the families of immigrants who have “suffered from recent events in the region”. The team definitely did not give up the ice, but the message was clear: it was clear that he could not work with the Trump administration and expect his supporters to remain quiet.

The events that led to Dodgers promised to their immigrant supporters began a few hours before the game between Dodgers and San Diego Padress, when the line of black SUV and white van tried to enter the stadium. People in the vehicles were disguised, and they had neither icons nor warrants. Photos flew around social media when people wondered whether Dodgers allowed armed, certainly checking immigration inside and outside the stadium. But Dodgers security is on the order of the high, would not allow them at the stadium. Because the extra-legal army, which was in the ice, searched for another place for creation, dozens of people appeared in a tweet on a protest and shooting them. The federations were in a hurry, fight (and play again) lanate battle – this time in public relations.

The locals praised Dodgers when the team announced on social media, which is clear who actually buys their expensive tickets and sent Trump’s dogs on the way.

The ice and the DHS, on the contrary, were olfactory and defensive, because they were shown the door and initially, and boldly, just posted the opposite: “False. We were never there.” Then they confessed that the customs and border patrols were there like photos and videos flooded with social media. Emily Philipp from the fast response network Echo Park reported that the federations said that the stadium was needed to handle the detainees at the stadium, as it would be “too dangerous” outdoors in Home Depot. This should scare, and offend everyone that such a cowardly, frightened group becomes disguised and armed and arrested people without a warrant.

Let’s be valid. It would be a mistake to think that Dodgers whose property and (some) players visited the White House a few months ago and kissed the ring, born again. This was done from all people who courageously rose to Lapd, the National Guard, the Marine Corps and all that was allocated to California, a group of agencies that were allotted to California – a state that, like Greenland, is obviously wants to capture in the spring. And yet the actions of the federations are also escalation. They expect that they will be able to use the stadium for “processing” those suspected of ignorant – or worse, they can pull people out of the crowd into the ball and throw them in the back of white minibuses. Given the history of stadiums used worldwide as mass content, with all kinds of small rooms ideal for “expanded interrogations”, this would be particularly injured for those related to countries where sports arenas are doubled as cameras. “What these raids are going on is what we need to be very concerned. Dodge stadium Coalition for the rights of humane immigrants Participant in Jorge-Mario Caberra.

Instead, we need to make sure that the calculation of Dodgers is not just ticket sale and ratings. They need to know that they will be publicly humiliated if they are as strong as bio eyelids toward ice. Owners must stand not only for profit and not only for their fans, but also because they owe their ancestors whose houses were destroyed by Chavez. The minimum reparations should stand with their community of fans and players before the crisis. Dodgers’ property did not want this struggle. But this will come to them, and the fans make them choose the right side.