Dodgers will attend White House ceremony celebrating World Series win amid ongoing ICE tension: report

The Los Angeles Dodgers volition judge an invitation to the White House for a ceremonial to observe their 2025 World Series triumph implicit the Toronto Blue Jays.

A White House authoritative told the New York Post the squad has been successful interaction astir a sojourn and the program to attend. A day has not yet been set.

There were calls for the squad to forgo the accepted White House solemnisation owed to ongoing hostility with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement crossed the country.

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Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Clayton Kershaw, U.S. President Donald Trump, and Los Angeles Dodgers Owner and Chairman Mark Walter airs with a jersey presented to Trump arsenic helium hosts the 2024 World Series champions successful the East Room of the White House connected April 7, 2025 successful Washington, D.C. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Dodgers squad president Stan Kasten besides said this past weekend, "I don’t person immoderate quality for you connected that," regarding a White House visit, per the Los Angeles Times.

Meanwhile, Dodgers manager Dave Roberts told the outlet helium intends connected going to the White House.

"I americium going to proceed to effort to bash what contented says and not effort to marque governmental statements due to the fact that I americium not a politician."

IMMIGRATION RIGHTS GROUP PETITIONS DODGERS TO SKIP WHITE HOUSE VISIT AFTER WORLD SERIES WIN

The Dodgers, winners of back-to-back World Series aft a thrilling seven-game bout with the Blue Jays, person attended their ceremonial astatine the White House successful their caller championships. The archetypal was with President Joe Biden successful 2021, and the squad traveled to the nation’s superior for a gathering with President Donald Trump this past April.

Almost each of the Dodgers roster was with Roberts astatine the White House past twelvemonth contempt pushback from fans. Yet, players had the aforesaid views arsenic Roberts — it’s tradition.

"The White House is an unthinkable grant to get to spell see, careless of who’s successful office," Clayton Kershaw said, per the New York Post. "We went successful 2021. We went this time. I cognize there’s been a batch of worldly about, should the Dodgers go? All this stuff. But astatine the extremity of the day, getting to spell to the White House, getting to spot the Oval Office, getting to conscionable the President of the United States, that’s worldly that you can’t suffer show of nary substance what you believe. I was ace honored to get to spell today."

There were some, similar Dodgers reliever Brusdar Graterol, who declined the invitation to enactment astatine "my brownish house."

Los Angeles Dodgers catcher Will Smith reacts aft hitting a location tally against the Toronto Blue Jays successful the 11th inning for Game 7 of the 2025 World Series astatine Rogers Centre.  (Nick Turchiaro/Imagn Images)

After the Dodgers defended their rubric successful Toronto, the National Day Laborer Organizing Network (NDLON), an migration rights group, wrote an online petition pleading with the Dodgers not to be the White House if an invitation comes for 2026.

"The Los Angeles Dodgers person ever been much than a shot squad — they’re portion of the tone of who we are arsenic a city. The squad represents our neighborhoods, our families, and our shared emotion for our divers communities. But close now, our community, our metropolis are nether siege, we request them to basal with us, on the close broadside of history," the petition read.

"Ask the squad to grant the unity, integrity and diverseness they themselves represent. They cannot enactment soundless arsenic our families and neighbors look violence, detention, and deportation. By visiting a president who has utilized his powerfulness to harm the astir vulnerable, the squad would beryllium turning its backmost connected the precise radical who capable the stadiums, deterioration the jerseys, and springiness this squad its heart. By encouraging the squad to bash the close thing, we volition amusement the White House that Los Angeles stands for compassion, dignity, and solidarity with their migrant neighbors."

The Dodgers person had to woody with ICE successful the past, announcing successful June 2025 they turned distant ICE agents entry to the grounds of their stadium, but ICE said that was "false" since they were "never there."

Los Angeles Dodgers Clayton Kershaw holds the trophy arsenic the Dodgers observe their triumph successful Game 7 of baseball's World Series against the Toronto Blue Jays, Sunday, Nov. 2, 2025, successful Toronto.  (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)

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The squad said the agents had "requested support to entree the parking lots," but an ICE spokesperson said successful an email to Fox News Digital astatine the clip that "ICE was ne'er at Dodgers stadium, and frankincense ne'er tried to summation access." In a connection of their ain aft ICE's denial, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said that "CBP vehicles were successful the stadium parking batch precise briefly," and it "had thing to bash with the Dodgers."

The Dodgers are expected to erstwhile again beryllium the favorites to triumph the World Series during the 2026 MLB season, particularly aft big-name successful summation including All-Star person Edwin Diaz and All-Star outfielder Kyle Tucker.

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