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The Los Angeles Dodgers are ready to visit the White House again after winning their second straight World Series title.
The Dodgers became the first team to win back-to-back Fall Classics since the New York Yankees won three straight from 1998 to 2000 after completing a Game 7 comeback against the Toronto Blue Jays in 11 innings.
The team took a trip to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. back in April during a series against the Washington Nationals, and if that’s the plan again, the Dodgers would go back sometime between 3-5. April next year.
But an immigration rights group is pleading with the team not to go.
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Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Clayton Kershaw, US President Donald Trump and Los Angeles Dodgers owner and chairman Mark Walter pose with a jersey presented to Trump as he hosts the 2024 World Series champions in the East Room of the White House on April 7, 2025 in Washington, DC (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
“The Los Angeles Dodgers have always been more than a baseball team – they are part of the spirit of who we are as a city. The team represents our neighborhoods, our families and our shared love for our diverse communities. But right now our community, our city is under siege, we need them to stand with us, on the right side of history,” the National Day Laborer Organizing Network (NDLON) wrote in an online petition.
“Ask the team to honor the unity, integrity and diversity they themselves represent. They cannot remain silent as our families and neighbors face violence, detention and deportation. By visiting a president who has used his power to harm the most vulnerable, the team would be turning their backs on the very people who fill the stadiums, wear the jerseys of its team, and by cheering the team its heart, and by cheering this team. The White House that Los Angeles stands for compassion, dignity and solidarity with their immigrant neighbors.”
“Los Angeles is a city built by immigrants, working families and dreamers. We celebrate our champions, but we also stand for justice, dignity and love for our community. Dodgers, stay with us. Stand with the city that has always stood with you,” they said in an Instagram post, via ABC7 in Los Angeles.
Hard-throwing reliever Brusdar grateralong with some others, missed the celebration earlier this year. Graterol chose to live in “my brown house.”
Outfielder Mookie Betts decided to leave this year after opting out of his 2019 stint with the Boston Red Sox.
Los Angeles Dodgers Shohei Ohtani speaks with President Donald Trump during a ceremony celebrating the Major League Baseball 2024 World Series Champion team, in the East Room of the White House, Monday, April 7, 2025, in Washington, DC (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
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“This is not about me; I don’t want anything to be about me. It’s about the Dodgers. Because these boys were there for me,” Betts said. via the Los Angeles Times.
Betts said he regretted not making the trip in 2019, which manager Alex Cora and pitcher David Price also skipped, saying he felt he was a distraction. Cora recently admitted that he jumped out to meet Trump because he wanted to prioritize his homeland Puerto Rico. When the Red Sox visited the White House in May 2019, Puerto Rico was still recovering from the devastation of Hurricane Maria in 2017, and Cora was not satisfied with the federal government’s response.
An LA Times writer in March implored the Dodgers to tell the White House, “Thanks, but no,” regarding this year’s visit.
“The president lost LA County by 33 percentage points. In his feuds with California Gov. Gavin Newsom, Trump has threatened to withhold fire disaster funding without concessions. He never seems to miss an opportunity to take a swipe at the Golden State,” the story read, noting past criticism of Trump by stakeholders Magic Johnson and Billie Jean King.
In June, the Dodgers said they denied ICE agents access to their stadium, but ICE said that was “false” since they were “never there.” The team said the agents had “requested permission to access the parking lots,” but an ICE spokesman said in an email to Pakinomist Digital at the time that “ICE was never at Dodgers stadiumand thus never attempted to gain entry.” In a separate statement after ICE’s denial, US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said that “CBP vehicles were in the stadium parking lot very briefly,” and it “had nothing to do with the Dodgers.”
Earlier that month, local singer Nessa performed the national anthem in Spanish as a form of protest against ICE raids in the city. Outfielder Kike Hernandez, a Game 6 hero, made a social media post about the protests at the time.
Dozens of people protest outside Dodger Stadium, criticizing the Los Angeles Dodgers for their lack of support for immigrants and their cooperation with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Los Angeles, USA on June 21, 2025. (Katie McTiernan/Anadolu via Getty Images)
“I may not have been born and raised, but this city adopted me as one of their own,” Hernandez wrote on Instagram. “I am saddened and outraged by what is happening in our country and our city. Los Angeles and Dodger fans have welcomed me, supported me and shown me nothing but kindness and love. This is my second home. And I can’t stand to see our community violated, profiled, abused and ripped apart.
“ALL people deserve to be treated with respect, dignity and human rights. #CityOfImmigrants.”
The Dodgers visited former President Joe Biden in July 2021 to celebrate their 2020 World Series title.
