The fierce debate over a new Arizona immigration law has spread to America's pastime as protesters plan to demonstrate against the city's baseball team on Thursday.
The protest will occur outside Wrigley Field in Chicago, Illinois, where the Arizona Diamondbacks will start a four-game series against the Chicago Cubs.
"America's favorite pastime will be hit with a reality check," the protest's organizers wrote on a Facebook page set up to publicize their rally. "Bring signs and banners to the protest."
By early Thursday morning, the Facebook group had more than 800 members.
The new Arizona law requires police to check whether a person is in the United States legally if there is a reason to suspect he or she isn't.
Critics say the law could foster racial profiling.
Along with the protest at Wrigley Field, the group said it is planning a protest march for May 1.
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This allows a cop to pull over a car driving legally because he feels suspicious that the person may be here illegally. Do you really want to live in a society where police can stop people at will and demand ID? Nazi Germany tried to create such a society. Stalinist Russia created such a society.
White Americans have some false notion of some Officer Friendly who will just check your DL and smile and send you on your way.
For anyone that has ever been harassed by a cop because they were black, brown, had long hair, too many tattoos, etc we know this is not the case.
A country that no longer stands for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness is not the proper future for our great nation for this nation was started by immigrants with dreams and hopes that have materialize over generations allowing us to arrive to this point where we find ourselves today as the beacon of democracy and freedom in the world but now we have turned selfish and want to deny the same opportunity that our fathers our grandfathers and so many generations before begged for now that we are on top we turn a blind eye to this generations of fathers and grandfathers for their opportunity to build a better future for themselves and their children that could have been easily one of us years ago it was not the right thing to do then and is not the right thing to do now we shouldn't deny neither life, liberty or the pursuit of happiness to anyone because doing so is insulting not only ourselves, our fellow Americans, but also this wonderful nation of ours and the principals we are all willing to defend with everything we have.
Hey all of you "americans" you should really stop tanning because everytime a cop sees you he might pull you over and ask for your documentation. Haha you say you don't like hispanics but you're tanning everyday to have their skin color
Sgt USMC...have you taken your Obama/Biden '08 bumper sticker off yet???
Why don't you put it in a time capsule and when space-aliens dig it up in the future they'll know the year that AMERICA & the WORLD began their respective descent into oblivion...
miami lawyer, thats actually not true at all, in order for someone to be stopped they have to be committing a traffic violation or there must be reasonable suspicion a crime is being committed. ONCE AGAIN, HAVE NOT HEARD ANY REASON THIS LAW IS BAD.
jds
so angry and ignorant, nobody wants legal citizens to be deported just illegals to be sent back to where they came from and let them come back through the right process
To all of you who so erronously claim the new law allows the police to stop someone just on "reasonable suspicion", you are wrong. It allows them to request documentation on reasonable suspicion only while during the course of their regular duties: ie, traffic stops, jaywalking tickets, etc.
Cindi,
Illegals or not Illegals, to become a legal resident in the US, it takes any where to up to 10 years per person and cost anywhere from $3,000 up to $6,000.00 for each person. But you can go the post office and fill out application pay your $95.00 and wait (2) to (4) weeks and get your passport and go anywhere in the world.
Everyone is upset because some rancher got killed in Arizona, but I don't think that a illegal who comes to cross the border looking for work is going to kill someone. first of all they surrender because they are tried, hungry, and thirst from all that walking in the desert. So, am guesting that there is more to this story then they want us to know. MAYBE DRUG RELATED from both sides or demanding money from the poor illegals crossing over his ranch land.
am thinking this rancher got his hand in the cookie jar one to many times.
EVERYBODY READ POST NUMBER 535, IT SHOWS WHAT ALL THESE MORONS FAIL TO REALIZE
-if 20 million illegals are gven amnesty--they will then be able to bring in 20 million more of their family members through chain migration.--
Then, they register to vote-–
Then,they take over our politics/elections, just like in CA-–
At that point, do you think that they are going to be worried about protecting YOUR rights/opportunities--what about those of your children/grandchildren
I just read on MSNBC news that 2 young ladies attempted to cross the border Tuesday near Nogales Mexico. They did not have the correct papers and were well aware they were illegal with false documents. One young Honduran girl was pregnant–another damn ANCHOR BABY to siphon more American tax dollars !!! We are tired of paying for your unborn/newborn bastard babies!!!! She says she slipped and fell climbing up the pole of the fence when she was attempting to cross over into the United States. She claims she got nervous. She states the Border Patrols detained her, realized her papers were phony and deported her. She says this will NOT deter her in ay way in the future from trying to cross illlegally AGAIN!!.(as did many others stated in the article.) By the way, her fetus is okay, she made sure to comment.
The illegals say "We will keep coming no matter what the USA does to keep us out!!!!'
Well to this , I betcha I could come up with something that would make you think twice about crossing those borders illegally into our country. I don't care if you're pregnant, young, old, a child....doesn't matter. You break our laws, you suffer the consequences!
The Border Patrol agents should be able to legally SHOOT.....yes SHOOT!!! ON SIGHT ANY person, man, woman, child or woman pregnant with child crossing the deserts of Mexico to get in to the the USA ILLEGALLY!!!!!!!! You know our laws and you refuse to achknowledge them and obey them--then you will suffer the consequences. May the bullets rain down on your ILLEGAL, PHONY DOCUMENT CARRYING, SEEKING DROP HOUSES TO HIDE asses!!!!!!!
Posted by: bwnewkid27: "sentinel2010, there really is noone to blame for the recession, after taking economics you learn that the Economy goes in cycles and there will always be recessions, its just part of economics. The only thing that can be controlled is how long it lasts. Without government intervention the effects are minimal, however with all the government is doing now and in the bush administration, it has been worse and lasted longer than it has had to"
bwnewkid27: You are absolutely right, the economy goes in cycles: When the Democrats are in power, the economy improves. When the Republican are in power, there is always some kind of economic or political catastrophe and the economy crashes because of Republican mismanagement, incompetence and corruption. Same cycle repeats over and over again....
To ANY and ALL immigrants who have the proper papers to stay I say welcome and thank you. Now how does the illegal FREE RIDE feel to you? Fair?
BTW -Zappa, we can start a fund for you to get some cash to GTFO. P O S
They should make everyone walk around with their papers. Just because you have blue eyes and blonde hair doesn't make you a "legal" person! They could be one of thousands/millions of European illegals that live in IL: Polish, Irish, Ukrainian as well as many people from Asia. So make them all show papers!!!
This allows a cop to pull over a car driving legally because he feels suspicious that the person may be here illegally. Do you really want to live in a society where police can stop people at will and demand ID? Nazi Germany tried to create such a society. Stalinist Russia created such a society.
White Americans have some false notion of some Officer Friendly who will just check your DL and smile and send you on your way.
For anyone that has ever been harassed by a cop because they were black, brown, had long hair, too many tattoos, etc we know this is not the case.
Posted by: Miami Lawyer
Miami Lawyer? really?
Wow, you probably complain about the new laws at airports because of 9/11 where if you look middle eastern you will be checked.