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The executive director of Major League Baseball Players Association, Tony Clark, told members of the Baseball Writers of America (BBWAA) on Tuesday before the star match that he and his office kept immigration in mind with the great foreign presence of the League.
About 28.6% of MLB players on the lists of the opening day (more than 220 of the 265 players born abroad) were of Latin origin.
In the midst of the presidency of Donald Trump, American immigration and customs’ application agents (ICE) repressed illegal immigration. Because of this, Clark said that his office told players to “transport their documentation wherever they go … to make sure that the guys were in the best position possible to go to the stadium and keep their jobs”.
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The demonstrators met in Los Angeles on June 21, 2025 to protest against the Dodgers, Ice and Trump. (Madison Swart / Hans Lucas / AFP via Getty Images)
“We try to put them and equip them in the best possible position to navigate the atmosphere in which we are with regard to immigration,” said Clark, according to a video taken by our Esquina. “We are communicating with our players, we have told them to transport their documentation wherever they go, we make sure that the communication lines are open, so that if they have a problem or that a family member has a problem, how can we best help them support them?
“We have lawyers for the Immigration and Immigration Council on staff to provide support in a way we have in the past, but not to the extent that we do now, to ensure that guys are in the best position possible to go to the stadium and keep their jobs.
Tony Clark answers a question at a press conference in New York on March 11, 2022. (AP photo / Richard Drew, file)
The Dodgers manager, Dave Roberts, was “excited” about the ATLANTA stars game after having planned before 2021 BOYCOTT
“It is complicated, it is difficult on several levels, but we continue to communicate with our guys and to assure them that they are at the level of the minor league or at the level of the major league, it is the best way to protect you in the nearest term in the transport of documentation while having an open communication line is what we found so far.”
The police were spotted outside the Dodger stadium last month. They were initially suspected of being, and the dodgers claimed to be, Ice, who prompted demonstrators on the site. But in a press release after the denial of the ICE, customs and the protection of American borders (CBP) said: “CBP vehicles were very briefly in the stadium car park”, and “it had nothing to do with the Dodgers”.
The Dodgers said that the agents “asked for authorization to access the parking lots” and that they had been refused. But a spokesperson for the Ice said in an email at PK Press Club Digital, “Ice was never at Dodgers stadiumAnd so has never tried to access. “”
Vehicles on stadium terrains were “not linked to any operation or application,” said a CBP spokesperson in a statement.
CBP agents were spotted outside the Dodger stadium in June. (KTTV)
A few days after the incident, Dodgers promised $ 1 million to help families affected by immigration arrests.
