The Department of Homeland Security poured cold water on the Los Angeles Dodgers’ claim that there was an attempted Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid at their stadium on Thursday.
The reigning World Series champs’ official X account claimed that ICE agents had requested access to the Dodger Stadium parking lot Thursday morning, with the team touting that it had denied the agents entry — in the wake of Los Angeles being ground zero of resistance against the Trump administration’s immigration raids.
DHS officials, however, said that the team’s grandstanding was irrelevant because there was never an operation in the works at the stadium.
“This had nothing to do with the Dodgers,” the agency wrote on X. “CBP vehicles were in the stadium parking lot very briefly, unrelated to any operation or enforcement.”
An ICE official confirmed that there was no raid planned at the stadium, telling The Post that the parking lot was merely used as a staging site.
Several DHS vehicles with masked agents were spotted outside Dodger Stadium in the Elysian Park section of the city, but there have been no signs that anyone has been arrested in the area on Thursday.
While LA Police sources said the team never requested local cops’ help to remove the agents from the stadium grounds, the Dodgers did ask for assistance when a group of anti-ICE protesters showed up, the LA Times reported.
The Dodgers have been under pressure from the local community to take a stance against the immigration raids in the city.
The pressure reached a boiling point earlier this week when singer Nezza sang the American national anthem in Spanish at the stadium after she was specifically asked to sing in English, prompting the Latin pop star to receive death threats.
Tensions are expected to escalate further after President Trump’s border czar, Tom Homan, announced that ICE would resume raids against farms, hotels and other businesses that rely on immigrant labor.
“We will concentrate on worksites on a prioritized basis just like we do at large operations,” he told reporters at the White House Thursday.
The new priority comes just days after the Trump administration claimed it would not conduct workplace raids at hotels, restaurants and farms.
