Dodgers commit $1M to aid families impacted by ICE raids - ESPN

LOS ANGELES — The Dodgers have donated $1 million to assist families impacted by two weeks of immigration raids in Southern California.

The defending World Series champion Dodgers also said Friday that they intend to form partnerships with the California Community Foundation, the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor and other organizations to continue providing aid to immigrant families.

«What's happening in Los Angeles has reverberated among thousands upon thousands of people, and we have heard the calls for us to take a leading role on behalf of those affected,» Dodgers president Stan Kasten said. «We believe that by committing resources and taking action, we will continue to support and uplift the communities of Greater Los Angeles.»

The Dodgers announced the steps in a five-paragraph news release that was delicately worded to avoid potentially inflammatory political terms, and which stopped short of an explicit condemnation of the federal policy. The team said only that the financial aid would be provided «for families of immigrants impacted by recent events in the region.»

«I think it's great,» Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said before his team faced the Washington Nationals. «I'm sure the money is going to be allocated in the right way. I'm happy to hear that the Dodgers have done that, and it's certainly the right thing to do.»

The Dodgers were briefly at the center of Southern California's opposition to federal immigration policy when the team asked federal agents to leave the stadium grounds Thursday after they amassed at a parking lot near one of the gates.

Dozens of federal agents with their faces covered arrived at a lot near the stadium's Gate E entrance in SUVs and cargo vans. A group of protesters