When Gov. Jan Brewer signed Arizona’s controversial immigration bill into law April 23, she, along with Arizona’s legislature, set the nation off into a fierce political debate.
According to an article in the New York Times, the law “makes[s] the failure to carry immigration documents a crime and give[s] the police broad power to detain anyone suspected of being in the country illegally."
The national debate over immigration has expanded to the point where it has found its way into the sports world, with the Phoenix Suns wearing “los Suns” (why not “los Soles”?) on their jerseys on Cinco de Mayo and the MLBPA voicing their discontent with the law.
Many are even calling for MLB Commissioner Bud Selig to move the 2011 All-Star Game from Arizona to another location in a gesture to aid th...
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