While Brown and immigrant fans pack Dodger Stadium night after night, the team’s billionaire owner may be cashing in on the very systems harming those same communities.
Mark Walter, the principal owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers, is also the CEO of Guggenheim Partners, a firm managing over $325 billion in assets. Among their holdings: a 0.38% stake in GEO Group, a private prison corporation that runs ICE detention centers. Based on GEO’s current $3.39 billion valuation, Guggenheim’s share amounts to over $12 million invested in immigrant incarceration.
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Walter also heads TWG Global,
which just partnered with Palantir Technologies, which is the company ICE paid $30 million to build ImmigrationOS, a surveillance platform that tracks immigrants using facial recognition, data fusion, and predictive algorithms.
So while ICE raids were actively happening in Los Angeles — targeting undocumented people in broad daylight — the Dodgers stayed quiet. No public statement. No action. Nothing.
Then, after two weeks of silence and growing outrage, the team donated $1 million to impacted communities. AND WHO GOT THE MONEY? Where did the money go?
But during that same two-week window?
Walter and his group closed a $10 billion deal to acquire a stake in the Lakers.
Imagine having $10,000 and waiting two weeks to offer someone in crisis a single dollar. That’s not generosity, it’s PR damage control.
This isn’t the first time these communities were left behind by the Dodgers.
Before Dodger Stadium
stood where it is today, the land belonged to Palo Verde, La Loma, and Bishop, three historic Mexican-American neighborhoods. In the 1950s, hundreds of families were forcibly removed under false promises of public housing, which never came, so a stadium could be built.
That was one of the most brutal acts of gentrification in LA history.
Now, it’s not bulldozers and it’s facial recognition. It’s not just about land anymore but instead data, incarceration, and erasure.
It’s the same playbook. Just with updated tools.
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