Overview

• ICE agents approached and questioned players at a Harlem Baseball Hitting Academy practice in Riverside Park on July 3.
• Coach Youman Wilder instructed his athletes to invoke their Fifth Amendment rights and said agents threatened him with assault or obstruction charges.
• Wilder has moved practice locations and altered schedules as attendance plunged to just two returning players.
• He criticized onlookers as “cowards” during national interviews on MSNBC where he detailed the confrontation.
• He is urging the administration to clarify ICE protocols, expand rights education and strengthen support for sanctuary policies.