I know that board rules are to offer some kind of commentary, but I do not even know what to say here. Sad that it took a baseball franchise to finally say "no" to these goons showing up without identification, without specific reasons and generally acting like Trump's personal, modern day Brown Shirts. https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/19/sport/los-angeles-dodgers-ice
Are all states now entitled to ignore the federal laws they don’t like and obstruct federal law enforcement officers?
Why not, the president seems to be satisfied ignoring Federal Laws. Seriously though, if a bunch guys show up at your property in plain clothes, hoods and masks, no other discernible ID and no authority other than waving around guns and showing off their body armor, do you just let them onto your property with no questions? Because this is where we are. A bunch of private contractors being "deputized" without training, without oversight in the field and without seemingly any purpose than to terrorize anyone who appears Hispanic. If this were a legitimate ICE raid with specific targets, it would have taken 1 phone call from an ICE director to the LA PD and ICE would have been all over Dodger stadium doing whatever it is they are doing these days. Yet, that did not happen and when confronted by the LA PD, they got back in their SUVs and ran. Heck, we do not even know if these guys were actual ICE "deputies", agents or just bunch of punk rednecks having fun.
What happens when “law enforcement officers” themselves don’t follow the rules? I mean surely they need a warrant or to be after someone specific rather than creating a scene at a sports venue. But if they were after someone they thought would be at the game, why would ANY business be amenable to these sort of gestapo like tactics with unidentified agents acting extralegally? Why would they even be showing up at a baseball stadium? I wonder if it’s coincidence that this happens a couple days after the woman sang the National Anthem in Spanish? I suspect not.
The issue is that the feds aren't really following the laws. For example, they are providing administrative warrants to search private property for people that they claim are illegal immigrants. Those warrants do not give them the right to do this (which is why the private property can deny them entry). They would need a judicial warrant to do this. In addition, they are not identifying themselves with proper documentation.
The article notes that DHS posted on X that CBP was there "unrelated to any operation or enforcement." If that's true, I can't imagine how this would amount to obstruction. Having said that, the article title named ICE. Aren't they different agencies under DHS? I am wondering if perhaps there are two different things being discussed.
We should send everyone in the Dodgers organization to jail for possibly harboring illegals, stat, if not quicker....
If it’s true that a federal law enforcement agency is acting without warrants, not displaying badges, etc, then that’s one thing. And I would say there would be a great case indeed to make that said federal agency was acting in violation of the law. And by case, I mean a case to be made in front of a judge, not on GC, and not in the media. In here, people can make whatever unsubstantiated accusations they want without ever having to back them up with real evidence. A judge is actually going to ask for the warrant and such.
It’s not a terrible idea. If he did this at US-Mexico soccer games, it would a US home game again. Shrug.
Seems like they wanted to use the parking lot as a staging area to conduct raids around the city, not necessarily raid the ball park… didn’t ask permission, just assumed it would be okay with everyone. But it’s private property so they had no right to do that….
It is pretty telling that we are to the point where in certain places - the broad population, including businesses, does not want certain law enforcement arms there at all.
That makes much more sense than them attempting an immigration raid inside the ballpark, which obviously would be crazy. But supposedly one of the things that sparked the riots was some agents tossed flashbangs into a restaurant, so one can never discount “crazy” these days.
And as I said, if they didn’t have a warrant, as far as I’m concerned they were not enforcing federal law. If that’s really true, and not just a narrative, then I’m not certain why this story is newsworthy. And I’m dead certain it’s not threadworthy.
