Everyone and their mama is responding to the shady Arizona Immigration Bill. Charles Barkley, Gov. Paterson, and the Phoenix Suns are taking a stand.
First, Barkley on Fox Sports Radio on Tuesday: I’ve always said if America, instead of trying to bring up this issue every couple of years to get elected…Ya know the governor she’s not even a real governor. She’s the interim governor. She’s trying to get elected and John McCain is trying to get back in the ballgame from getting his ass kicked by Barack last time.
So they’re doing anything to rile up the good ‘ol boy network. But what I think we need to do is find a way to get people who work their behind off a path to citizenship more than anything. That’s the way to do it. But it’s a disgrace the way it is right now.”
Now, on the Dan Patrick Show: Dan Patrick: You’re a resident of Arizona, I’m curious if you think baseball should get involved with the immigration law. Do you like that they’re standing up for their players to say we’re concerned about this law?
Barkley: I think we all need to. As a black person, I’m always against any form of discrimination or racial profiling. I really respect Adrian Gonzalez for coming out and saying something. I didn’t realize that in the major leagues there’s 30 percent Hispanic players, and in the minor leagues it’s like 50. Those are some daunting numbers. I think that we need to do two things. Living in Arizona, I’m disappointed that we came up with the law. But we need to do two things. We need to find a way to get these immigrants their citizenship, that’s the first thing, is to find a way to help them get citizenship. I’m very disappointed in John McCain. He used to be somebody I really admired and respected. The second thing, to me, would be very simple. Anybody who hires immigrants, you just fine them. They’re not working for other immigrants. Fine and penalize the people they’re working for, because most of those immigrants here are busting their hump, doing a great job, and to go after them every couple years because you want to raise hell doing something to get re-elected, that’s disrespectful and disgusting. Barkley went on to say, in the Fox interview, that MLB needs to pull the All-Star Game from Arizona.
And of course, on ballpark security using tasers on field crashers: “I think (security) should just beat the hell out of them. I got a bunch of friends who are cops. They said to me — because I want to get tasered, Dan, just to see what it feels like, not when I broke the law. But they said Charles, it’s going to hurt like a —– for a few seconds. So I said, I want to try that some time.”
Governor Paterson and his little shady self:
New York Gov. David Paterson has decided to join the many politicians and celebrities who are lobbying against the Arizona Immigration law by proposing new bill that could allow immigrants to stay.
Monday (May 3), Gov. Patterson announced that he would create the nation’s first “pardon panel” to investigate requests of legal immigrants facing deportation because of past convictions.
“To be sure, there are some individuals whose crimes are egregious or who pose a threat to public safety. And they are justly removed from the United States,” Paterson said. “But there are others for whom the situation is far less clear. For them, our national immigration laws leave no room to consider mitigating circumstances. But in New York, we believe in rehabilitation. And we believe in renewal. And we believe in second chances.”
Phoenix Suns Anti-Immigration Bill:
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