{"id":12844,"date":"2025-07-15T23:54:18","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T23:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/12844\/"},"modified":"2025-07-15T23:54:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T23:54:18","slug":"amid-ice-raids-mlbpa-advises-players-to-keep-legal-documents-with-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/12844\/","title":{"rendered":"Amid ICE raids, MLBPA advises players to keep legal documents with them"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

ATLANTA\u00a0\u2014\u00a0As federal agents conduct immigration raids in Southern California and across America, the union representing major and minor league baseball players has warned any concerned members to \u201ccarry documentation wherever they go,\u201d union chief Tony Clark<\/a> said Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Clark, asked about the raids amid the context of a significant Latino player base, said the union has retained immigration lawyers and encourages players and family members to reach out with any concerns, so as to ensure players can be \u201cin the best position possible to just get to the ballpark and do their jobs.\u201d<\/p>\n

Said Clark: \u201cWe continue to communicate with our guys and assure them, whether they\u2019re at the minor league level or at the major league level, this is how best to protect yourself in the near term, and carrying the documentation while having an open line of communication is what we\u2019ve found has worked so far.\u201d<\/p>\n

Clark said the union is working \u201chand in hand\u201d with the league on this issue and believes the league is delivering a similar message to players. Clark and MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred<\/a> each spoke in separate meetings with the Baseball Writers Assn. of America here Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Manfred said the league has discussed the issue with the Trump administration<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey assured us that there were going to be protections for our players \u2014 for example, going back and forth between the U.S. and Canada,\u201d Manfred said. \u201cThey told us that was what was going to happen. That\u2019s what happened. Beyond that, it\u2019s all speculation.\u201d<\/p>\n

A federal judge ruled last week<\/a> that the government cannot use racial profiling \u2014 what language someone speaks, for instance, or what race they are \u2014 in coming to the \u201creasonable suspicion\u201d required to detain someone.<\/p>\n

According to the league, 28% of players<\/a> on opening day rosters were born outside the United States, with the Dominican Republic, Venezuela and Cuba ranking as the top three foreign countries.<\/p>\n

Does Manfred worry Latino players might get caught up in the raids?<\/p>\n

\u201cI worry about anything that could be disruptive to the very best players in the world,\u201d he said. \u201cThe prospect of that disruption, given that our players all have visas, it\u2019s speculation at this point. We have seen no evidence of that at this point.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ATLANTA\u00a0\u2014\u00a0As federal agents conduct immigration raids in Southern California and across America, the union representing major and minor…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12845,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":["post-12844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}