While Brown and immigrant fans fill the stadium, is the team’s billionaire owner is cashing in on their detention and displacement?
Did you know the owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers is financially invested in ICE detention centers, real-time surveillance tech, and billion-dollar power plays — all while the community most impacted is packing the stadium, buying the merch, and getting left behind?
Let’s connect the dots.
Mark Walter, principal owner of the Dodgers, is also CEO of Guggenheim Partners — a financial firm managing over $325 billion in assets. Guggenheim owns 0.38% of GEO Group, a private prison corporation that operates ICE detention centers. Based on GEO’s current $3.39 billion valuation, Guggenheim has over $12 million invested in immigrant incarceration — profiting directly off the imprisonment and separation of families.
But that’s just the surface.
Walter also leads TWG Global, which in March 2025 announced a major partnership with Palantir Technologies — the company that ICE just paid $30 million to develop ImmigrationOS, a platform that tracks immigrants in real-time through data fusion, facial recognition, and predictive algorithms.
So while the Dodgers stayed quiet about ICE raids happening across L.A., their owner was literally partnering with the people building the surveillance tools enabling them.
Then — two weeks after widespread public outcry and silence from the team — the Dodgers finally announced a $1 million donation to support those impacted.
But here’s the part they didn’t mention:
During those same two weeks of silence, Walter and his partners closed a $10 billion deal to acquire a stake in the Lakers.
Let that sink in.
Imagine having $10,000 in your pocket. Someone who’s always had your back — who’s shown up for you — is in trouble. You wait two weeks before offering them a single dollar. That’s not generosity — that’s damage control.
And who’s being left behind?
The same communities that have supported this team since day one. Latino, immigrant, and Brown fans — the ones who fill Dodger Stadium, wear the blue with pride, and bring culture to the game — are also the ones being tracked, detained, and deported.
And if that sounds familiar, it’s because we’ve been here before.
The land Dodger Stadium sits on was once home to three historic Mexican-American communities: Palo Verde, La Loma, and Bishop. Hundreds of families were forcibly displaced — promised public housing that never came — so the city could make way for a stadium. It was one of the most devastating acts of gentrification in Los Angeles history.
Today, it’s no longer just a land grab. It’s a data grab. A detention grab.
From bulldozers to surveillance contracts — it’s the same playbook, just upgraded.
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