The dodgers prevent ice agents from the entrance to the stadium in Los Angeles, the team said

LOS Angeles – The Los Angeles Dodgers announced Thursday that they prevented federal immigration agents from entering their stadium while dozens of anti -ice demonstrators gathered outside the site.

The MLB team said on social networks The fact that the federal agents working with immigration and the application of customs arrived at the stadium on Thursday and “asked for authorization to access the car parks”.

“They were denied entry into the field by the organization,” said the Dodgers, adding that their game against the Padres of San Diego will continue at the stadium as expected.

Ice responded to dodgers on social networks: “False. We were never there.”

Demonstrators standing outside the stadium doors were seen by holding panels and singing “Ice Out of” and “Ice Go Home” while several dark SUVs were held on the other side of the road. Some federal agents seemed to wear internal security uniforms.

Deputy Secretary of Internal Security, Tricia McLaughlin, told NBC News in an email: “It had nothing to do with the Dodgers.”

According to McLaughlin, customs and border protection vehicles “were very briefly in the stadium car park, unrelated to any operation or application”.

The federal agents who have arisen in the vehicles were refused to enter the doors of the stadium, said two familiar sources with the NBC News affair.

It was not immediately clear if or how their presence was linked to the immigration operations that were reported in the city on Thursday, the sources said.

Euniss Hernandez, a member of the Municipal Council of Los Angeles, told NBC News She received calls early in the morning according to which “the federal agents featured here at the entrance to the Dodgers stadium. We had photos of dozens of vehicles and dozens of agents”.

She said that her voters asked her to come “check things because it is the Dodgers property here and what’s going on is scandalous”.

Los Angeles police have been called, said Hernandez. They arrived in tactical equipment around 2:25 p.m. and began to keep the demonstrators away.

“People are here because they don’t want to see their families torn apart. They don’t want to see more workers taken from their work,” said Hernandez on the demonstration website.

Sources have said that the Dodgers have cooperated with the police in the past, allowing them to use car parks around the stadium for staging.

“Companies and companies have the power to say:” not on my property “, so we are waiting to see that the movement occurs here”, ” Hernandez told NBC Los Angeles.

While anti-gliding demonstrations raged in Los Angeles this month, many residents have called on Dodgers to support immigrant communities.

Criticism intervenes as the owner of the Dodgers Mark Walter bought another renowned Los Angeles sports teamLakers.

Dodgers, defending champions of World Series, would have plans Announce a scanning initiative to help the communities of immigrants affected by the recent ice raids.

One of their star players, Kike Hernández, published a statement this week To show his support.

“I am saddened and furious by what is happening in our country and our city,” said the press release. “I cannot bear to see our community being raped, profiled, abused and torn. All people deserve to be treated with respect, dignity and human rights.”

Jacob Soboroff and Andrew Blankstein reported From Los Angeles and Nicole Acevedo from New York.