Vice President JD Vance will travel to Los Angeles on Friday amid tensions in the far-left city over the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.
Vance will “tour a multi-agency Federal Joint Operations Center, a Federal Mobile Command Center, meet with leadership and Marines, and deliver brief remarks,” according to a readout of the vice president’s travel plans.
The trip comes after major anti-ICE rallies in Los Angeles, which President Donald Trump responded to with National Guard soldiers and Marines. The riots and turmoil have subsided as the military remains in Los Angeles.
California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom sued the administration to keep control of the California National Guard troops, but a federal appeals court halted his attempts on Thursday, giving Trump a major victory.
Los Angeles has been engulfed in drama since ICE raids began in the city.
The Los Angeles Dodgers claimed on Thursday that the team had denied U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents entry to the grounds of the ballpark.
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The Major League Baseball (MLB) organization claimed on X that agents had “requested permission to access the parking lots.”
However, ICE responded to those claims and said, “ICE was never at Dodgers stadium, and thus never tried to gain access.”
ICE also responded to the Dodgers on X, writing, “False. We were never there.”
Early on Thursday, demonstrators spotted law enforcement outside Dodger Stadium, initially mistaking it for ICE. However, in a statement issued following ICE’s rejection, US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) stated that “CBP vehicles were in the stadium parking lot very briefly,” and that it “had nothing to do with the Dodgers.”
The vehicles on stadium grounds were “unrelated to any operation or enforcement,” a CBP spokesperson said in a statement.
An investigation is currently underway to identify the sponsors of anti-immigration ICE riots in Los Angeles and other major U.S. cities, following a prominent corporation’s statement that it has received requests for assistance.
Crowds on Demand, a California-based firm that specializes in delivering on-demand protest crowds, told Fox News Digital that it had “numerous high-budget requests” to join in the anti-ICE riots in Los Angeles and other locations but rejected them.
A company spokesperson said it declined to get involved in what is happening in Los Angeles because it did “not want to get close to any form of illegal activity, including violence, vandalism, or blocking off roads without a permit.”
Missouri Republican Sen. Josh Hawley, the chairman of the Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism, shared that the committee is sending letters to multiple organizations believed to be behind the funding.
One of the groups questioned by Hawley and Republican California Rep. Kevin Kiley is the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights, or CHIRLA, an advocacy group said to be at the heart of the anti-ICE rallies in Los Angeles.
Kiley also questioned who was supporting the riots and speculated that California Gov. Gavin Newsom may have a conflict of interest.
Kiley also told Fox News that CHIRLA had backed a campaign to eliminate ICE.
According to IRS data acquired by Fox News, CHIRLA has received $34 million in government grants, including three from the administration of former President Joe Biden for $750,000 each.
According to documents, the Million Voter Project, which got a share of these donations while opposing Newsom’s recall, has also backed anti-ICE marches.
It is unclear whether either group financed any protests, and there is no indication that they condoned riots.
