The Los Angeles Dodgers have fended off ice marshals from exploring the parking lot leading up to a game, although internal security is adamant there was no planned attack.
On Thursday, before a game against the San Diego Padres, the Dodgers posted on X that they had denied ice marshals access to their parking lots after a group showed up asking to enter.
“This morning, ice marshals arrived at Dodger Stadium and requested permission to access the parking lots,” the account posted. “They were denied entry to the venue by the organization. Tonight’s game will be played as scheduled.”
The Department of Homeland Security denied plans for a potential attack around the game. They said the vehicles were not from the ice, but from U.S. Customs and Border Protection and were there only while one of the vehicles was dealing with a malfunction.
“This had nothing to do with the Dodgers,” DHS said in response to what the Dodgers posted on X. “CBP vehicles were in the stadium parking lot very briefly, unrelated to any operation or enforcement.”
As immigration raids on the ice have continued in Los Angeles, local institutions have faced mounting pressure to comply with the increasingly brutal tactics, regardless of legality. Amid the ongoing climate following nationwide protests at the Kings on Saturday, singer Nezza (real name Vanessa Hernández) was scheduled to sing the national anthem at that night’s Dodgers game, but was told by the organization that she would be singing it in English.
She sang “El Pendón Estrellado,” the Spanish version of the national anthem. Since then, Nezza says she has received death threats .
