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Immigration Even a Scare for Arizona MLB Players
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Friday, June 18, 2010
About 150 prospects from Latin America are taking part in Arizona Rookie League, which starts Monday. The highly debated immigration law will take effect on July 29th, unless the court decides otherwise.
To make sure their young Latin players don???t get caught unaware, the Cleveland Indians are taking extra precautions.
Ross Atkins, the MLB player development director, says, ???We held a seminar under the direction of our cultural development director, Lino Diaz. We brought in a local police officer to explain the situation and issued each player an ID card so they don???t have to rely on carrying around their visas and paperwork with them.???
The Milwaukee Brewers, who have been issuing identification cards to the players for the past three years, feel that they are ready for the law. Each of the identification cards will have the player???s picture and information on how to contact the Brewers officials should authorities raise questions as to why the player is in Arizona.
Assistant general manager Gord Ash states that, ???It???s a preventative measure. We haven???t had any problems so far.???
Because the team was staying in a crime-infested area of southern Phoenix, the Brewers decided to start the program. Even though the club has moved next to the Glendale entertainment district, they will still be issued the cards.
The officers are required, by the statute, to ask a person on their immigration status if that person seems like they may be in the country illegally. Unfortunately, a Latin player may fit the description if he doesn???t speak English.
The Arizona Govenor signed the bill into law because he felt that the federal government wasn???t doing anything about the illegal immigrants.
One heck of a statement to make. Yet another altogether in trying to go about the situation as they are. Alienating an ethnicity crosses a whole slew of boundaries. What is next, blacks being targeted to ensure that they are not here illegally from Africa?
Dayton Moore, the Kansas City Royalsmanager says, ???Major League Baseball has a great relationship with local authorities??? We have local police come in and talk about areas players should avoid. There???s security at the hotel. You???ve got to go out of your way to mess up. That???s not to say we don???t have situations occur. But when it does happen, it???s usually centered around alcohol or females.???
Certainly a new focus for both players and long time residents of Arizona. As if sex, drugs and rock and roll was not enough to worry about already for Latino, or any other MLB player.
???We keep players pretty close to the complex, going to the hotel and mall,??? says Bobby Evans, of the Giants??? vice president of baseball operations. ???Guys don???t have cars or a lot of means of getting out. It???s a little different now (with the new law). We haven???t had any problems and we don???t anticipate any. The players have been there a while now, since spring training, so since the law came out and they know about it. Our staff keeps the players apprised.???
???So you have to give them the proper resources and information, so that at least you can be ahead of it as opposed to trying to react to it,??? Tony Reagins said. ???Our staff down there has done a great job of keeping our guys in line.???
And with younger players in the sport being exposed to a huge change in both their professional but also personal lives related to financials Reagins is seasoned enough to understand there will most likely be a point in which trouble arises.
He also states, ???We haven???t altered the way we develop our players in any way. We???re still sending the same types of players to the Arizona Rookie League and into the state of Arizona, so that hasn???t changed. We have just made our players aware that they should have their identification with them at all times. But other than that, we don???t see any difference in how we???re going to operate.???
From Immigration Even a Scare for Arizona MLB Players | Custom Authentic Jerseys
Background:
Arizona Enacts Stringent Law on Immigration
By Randal C. Archibold
April 23, 2010
PHOENIX ??? Gov. Jan Brewer of Arizona signed the nation???s toughest bill on illegal immigration into law on Friday. Its aim is to identify, prosecute and deport illegal immigrants.
The move unleashed immediate protests and reignited the divisive battle over immigration reform nationally.
Even before she signed the bill at an afternoon news conference here, President Obamahttp://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/o/barack_obama/index.html?inline=nyt-per strongly criticized it.
Speaking at a naturalization ceremony for 24 active-duty service members in the Rose Garden, he called for a federal overhaul of immigration laws, which Congressional leaders signaled they were preparing to take up soon, to avoid ???irresponsibility by others.???
The Arizona law, he added, threatened ???to undermine basic notions of fairness that we cherish as Americans, as well as the trust between police and our communities that is so crucial to keeping us safe.???
The law, which proponents and critics alike said was the broadest and strictest immigration measure in generations, would make the failure to carry immigration documents a crime and give the police broad power to detain anyone suspected of being in the country illegally. Opponents have called it an open invitation for harassment and discrimination against Hispanics regardless of their citizenship status.
The political debate leading up to Ms. Brewer???s decision, and Mr. Obama???s criticism of the law ??? presidents very rarely weigh in on state legislation ??? underscored the power of the immigration debate in states along the Mexican border. It presaged the polarizing arguments that await the president and Congress as they take up the issue nationally.
Mexico???s Foreign Ministry said in a statement that it was worried about the rights of its citizens and relations with Arizona. Cardinal Roger M. Mahony of Los Angeles said the authorities??? ability to demand documents was like ???Nazism.???
As hundreds of demonstrators massed, mostly peacefully, at the capitol plaza, the governor, speaking at a state building a few miles away, said the law ???represents another tool for our state to use as we work to solve a crisis we did not create and the federal government has refused to fix.???
The law was to take effect 90 days after the legislative session ends, meaning by August. Court challenges were expected immediately.
Hispanics, in particular, who were not long ago courted by the Republican Partyhttp://topics.nytimes.com/top/refer.../r/republican_party/index.html?inline=nyt-org as a swing voting bloc, railed against the law as a recipe for racial and ethnic profiling. ???Governor Brewer caved to the radical fringe,??? a statement by the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund said, predicting that the law would create ???a spiral of pervasive fear, community distrust, increased crime and costly litigation, with nationwide repercussions.???
While police demands of documents are common on subways, highways and in public places in some countries, including France, Arizona is the first state to demand that immigrants meet federal requirements to carry identity documents legitimizing their presence on American soil.
Ms. Brewer acknowledged critics??? concerns, saying she would work to ensure that the police have proper training to carry out the law. But she sided with arguments by the law???s sponsors that it provides an indispensable tool for the police in a border state that is a leading magnet of illegal immigration. She said racial profiling would not be tolerated, adding, ???We have to trust our law enforcement.???
Ms. Brewer and other elected leaders have come under intense political pressure here, made worse by the killing of a rancher in southern Arizona by a suspected smuggler a couple of weeks before the State Legislature voted on the bill. His death was invoked Thursday by Ms. Brewer herself, as she announced a plan urging the federal government to post National Guard troops at the border.
President George W. Bushhttp://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/b/george_w_bush/index.html?inline=nyt-per had attempted comprehensive reform but failed when his own party split over the issue. Once again, Republicans facing primary challenges from the right, including Ms. Brewer and Senator John McCain, have come under tremendous pressure to support the Arizona law, known as SB 1070http://www.azleg.gov/legtext/49leg/2r/bills/sb1070s.pdf.
Mr. McCain, locked in a primary with a challenger campaigning on immigration, only came out in support of the law hours before the State Senate passed it Monday afternoon.
Governor Brewer, even after the Senate passed the bill, had been silent on whether she would sign it. Though she was widely expected to, given her primary challenge, she refused to state her position even at a dinner on Thursday for a Hispanic social service organization, Chicanos Por La Causahttp://www.cplc.org/, where several audience members called out ???Veto!???
Among other things, the Arizona measure is an extraordinary rebuke to former Gov. Janet Napolitano, who had vetoed similar legislation repeatedly as a Democratic governor of the state before being appointed Homeland Security secretary by Mr. Obama.
The law opens a deep fissure in Arizona, with a majority of the thousands of callers to the governor???s office urging her to reject it.
In the days leading up to Ms. Brewer???s decision, Representative Raúl M. Grijalva, a Democrat, called for a convention boycott of his state.
The bill, sponsored by Russell Pearce, a state senator and a firebrand on immigration issues, has several provisions.
It requires police officers, ???when practicable,??? to detain people they reasonably suspect are in the country without authorization and to verify their status with federal officials, unless doing so would hinder an investigation or emergency medical treatment.
It also makes it a state crime ??? a misdemeanor ??? to not carry immigration papers. In addition, it allows people to sue local government or agencies if they believe federal or state immigration law is not being enforced.
States across the country have proposed or enacted hundreds of bills addressing immigration since 2007, the last time a federal effort to reform immigration law collapsed. Last year, there were a record number of laws enacted (222) and resolutions (131) in 48 states, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
The prospect of plunging into a national immigration debate is being increasingly talked about on Capitol Hill, spurred in part by recent statements by Senator Harry Reid, Democrat of Nevada, the majority leader, that he intends to bring legislation to the Senate floor after Memorial Day.
But while an immigration debate could help energize Hispanic voters and provide political benefits to embattled Democrats seeking re-election in November ??? like Mr. Reid ??? it could also energize conservative voters.
It could also take time from other Democratic priorities, including an energy measure that Speaker Nancy Pelosi has described as her flagship issue.
Mr. Reid declined Thursday to say that immigration would take precedence over an energy measure. But he called it an imperative: ???The system is broken,??? he said.
Ms. Pelosi and Representative Steny H. Hoyer, Democrat of Maryland and the majority leader, have said that the House would be willing to take up immigration policy only if the Senate produces a bill first.
Helene Cooper and Carl Hulse contributed reporting from Washington.
From Arizona Enacts Stringent Law on Immigration - NYTimes.com
Update:
In February 2011, Arizona filed a countersuit against the federal government in the United States v. Arizona case, accusing it of failing to secure the Mexican border against large numbers of illegal immigrants.
Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne acknowledged that precedent surrounding sovereign immunity in the United States made the state's case difficult, but said, "We're asking the 9th Circuit to take a second look."
On April 11, 2011, the Ninth Circuit panel upheld the district court's ban on parts of the law taking effect, thus ruling in favor of the Obama administration and against Arizona. Judge Richard Paez gave the majority opinion, in which Judge John T. Noonan, Jr. joined; Judge Carlos Bea dissented in part.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arizona_SB_1070#cite_note-wapo-9thpanel-220 Paez agreed with the administration's view that the state had intruded upon federal prerogatives. Noonan wrote in his concurrence: "The Arizona statute before us has become a symbol.
For those sympathetic to immigrants to the United States, it is a challenge and a chilling foretaste of what other states might attempt."http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arizona_SB_1070#cite_note-wapo-9thpanel-220 On May 9, 2011, Governor Brewer announced that Arizona would appeal directly to the U.S. Supreme Court rather than request a hearing en banc before the Ninth Circuit. Bolton's court continues to oversee the other lawsuits.
From Arizona SB 1070 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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By JerseyInfo
Friday, June 18, 2010
About 150 prospects from Latin America are taking part in Arizona Rookie League, which starts Monday. The highly debated immigration law will take effect on July 29th, unless the court decides otherwise.
To make sure their young Latin players don???t get caught unaware, the Cleveland Indians are taking extra precautions.
Ross Atkins, the MLB player development director, says, ???We held a seminar under the direction of our cultural development director, Lino Diaz. We brought in a local police officer to explain the situation and issued each player an ID card so they don???t have to rely on carrying around their visas and paperwork with them.???
The Milwaukee Brewers, who have been issuing identification cards to the players for the past three years, feel that they are ready for the law. Each of the identification cards will have the player???s picture and information on how to contact the Brewers officials should authorities raise questions as to why the player is in Arizona.
Assistant general manager Gord Ash states that, ???It???s a preventative measure. We haven???t had any problems so far.???
Because the team was staying in a crime-infested area of southern Phoenix, the Brewers decided to start the program. Even though the club has moved next to the Glendale entertainment district, they will still be issued the cards.
The officers are required, by the statute, to ask a person on their immigration status if that person seems like they may be in the country illegally. Unfortunately, a Latin player may fit the description if he doesn???t speak English.
The Arizona Govenor signed the bill into law because he felt that the federal government wasn???t doing anything about the illegal immigrants.
One heck of a statement to make. Yet another altogether in trying to go about the situation as they are. Alienating an ethnicity crosses a whole slew of boundaries. What is next, blacks being targeted to ensure that they are not here illegally from Africa?
Dayton Moore, the Kansas City Royalsmanager says, ???Major League Baseball has a great relationship with local authorities??? We have local police come in and talk about areas players should avoid. There???s security at the hotel. You???ve got to go out of your way to mess up. That???s not to say we don???t have situations occur. But when it does happen, it???s usually centered around alcohol or females.???
Certainly a new focus for both players and long time residents of Arizona. As if sex, drugs and rock and roll was not enough to worry about already for Latino, or any other MLB player.
???We keep players pretty close to the complex, going to the hotel and mall,??? says Bobby Evans, of the Giants??? vice president of baseball operations. ???Guys don???t have cars or a lot of means of getting out. It???s a little different now (with the new law). We haven???t had any problems and we don???t anticipate any. The players have been there a while now, since spring training, so since the law came out and they know about it. Our staff keeps the players apprised.???
???So you have to give them the proper resources and information, so that at least you can be ahead of it as opposed to trying to react to it,??? Tony Reagins said. ???Our staff down there has done a great job of keeping our guys in line.???
And with younger players in the sport being exposed to a huge change in both their professional but also personal lives related to financials Reagins is seasoned enough to understand there will most likely be a point in which trouble arises.
He also states, ???We haven???t altered the way we develop our players in any way. We???re still sending the same types of players to the Arizona Rookie League and into the state of Arizona, so that hasn???t changed. We have just made our players aware that they should have their identification with them at all times. But other than that, we don???t see any difference in how we???re going to operate.???
From Immigration Even a Scare for Arizona MLB Players | Custom Authentic Jerseys
Background:
Arizona Enacts Stringent Law on Immigration
By Randal C. Archibold
April 23, 2010
PHOENIX ??? Gov. Jan Brewer of Arizona signed the nation???s toughest bill on illegal immigration into law on Friday. Its aim is to identify, prosecute and deport illegal immigrants.
The move unleashed immediate protests and reignited the divisive battle over immigration reform nationally.
Even before she signed the bill at an afternoon news conference here, President Obamahttp://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/o/barack_obama/index.html?inline=nyt-per strongly criticized it.
Speaking at a naturalization ceremony for 24 active-duty service members in the Rose Garden, he called for a federal overhaul of immigration laws, which Congressional leaders signaled they were preparing to take up soon, to avoid ???irresponsibility by others.???
The Arizona law, he added, threatened ???to undermine basic notions of fairness that we cherish as Americans, as well as the trust between police and our communities that is so crucial to keeping us safe.???
The law, which proponents and critics alike said was the broadest and strictest immigration measure in generations, would make the failure to carry immigration documents a crime and give the police broad power to detain anyone suspected of being in the country illegally. Opponents have called it an open invitation for harassment and discrimination against Hispanics regardless of their citizenship status.
The political debate leading up to Ms. Brewer???s decision, and Mr. Obama???s criticism of the law ??? presidents very rarely weigh in on state legislation ??? underscored the power of the immigration debate in states along the Mexican border. It presaged the polarizing arguments that await the president and Congress as they take up the issue nationally.
Mexico???s Foreign Ministry said in a statement that it was worried about the rights of its citizens and relations with Arizona. Cardinal Roger M. Mahony of Los Angeles said the authorities??? ability to demand documents was like ???Nazism.???
As hundreds of demonstrators massed, mostly peacefully, at the capitol plaza, the governor, speaking at a state building a few miles away, said the law ???represents another tool for our state to use as we work to solve a crisis we did not create and the federal government has refused to fix.???
The law was to take effect 90 days after the legislative session ends, meaning by August. Court challenges were expected immediately.
Hispanics, in particular, who were not long ago courted by the Republican Partyhttp://topics.nytimes.com/top/refer.../r/republican_party/index.html?inline=nyt-org as a swing voting bloc, railed against the law as a recipe for racial and ethnic profiling. ???Governor Brewer caved to the radical fringe,??? a statement by the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund said, predicting that the law would create ???a spiral of pervasive fear, community distrust, increased crime and costly litigation, with nationwide repercussions.???
While police demands of documents are common on subways, highways and in public places in some countries, including France, Arizona is the first state to demand that immigrants meet federal requirements to carry identity documents legitimizing their presence on American soil.
Ms. Brewer acknowledged critics??? concerns, saying she would work to ensure that the police have proper training to carry out the law. But she sided with arguments by the law???s sponsors that it provides an indispensable tool for the police in a border state that is a leading magnet of illegal immigration. She said racial profiling would not be tolerated, adding, ???We have to trust our law enforcement.???
Ms. Brewer and other elected leaders have come under intense political pressure here, made worse by the killing of a rancher in southern Arizona by a suspected smuggler a couple of weeks before the State Legislature voted on the bill. His death was invoked Thursday by Ms. Brewer herself, as she announced a plan urging the federal government to post National Guard troops at the border.
President George W. Bushhttp://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/b/george_w_bush/index.html?inline=nyt-per had attempted comprehensive reform but failed when his own party split over the issue. Once again, Republicans facing primary challenges from the right, including Ms. Brewer and Senator John McCain, have come under tremendous pressure to support the Arizona law, known as SB 1070http://www.azleg.gov/legtext/49leg/2r/bills/sb1070s.pdf.
Mr. McCain, locked in a primary with a challenger campaigning on immigration, only came out in support of the law hours before the State Senate passed it Monday afternoon.
Governor Brewer, even after the Senate passed the bill, had been silent on whether she would sign it. Though she was widely expected to, given her primary challenge, she refused to state her position even at a dinner on Thursday for a Hispanic social service organization, Chicanos Por La Causahttp://www.cplc.org/, where several audience members called out ???Veto!???
Among other things, the Arizona measure is an extraordinary rebuke to former Gov. Janet Napolitano, who had vetoed similar legislation repeatedly as a Democratic governor of the state before being appointed Homeland Security secretary by Mr. Obama.
The law opens a deep fissure in Arizona, with a majority of the thousands of callers to the governor???s office urging her to reject it.
In the days leading up to Ms. Brewer???s decision, Representative Raúl M. Grijalva, a Democrat, called for a convention boycott of his state.
The bill, sponsored by Russell Pearce, a state senator and a firebrand on immigration issues, has several provisions.
It requires police officers, ???when practicable,??? to detain people they reasonably suspect are in the country without authorization and to verify their status with federal officials, unless doing so would hinder an investigation or emergency medical treatment.
It also makes it a state crime ??? a misdemeanor ??? to not carry immigration papers. In addition, it allows people to sue local government or agencies if they believe federal or state immigration law is not being enforced.
States across the country have proposed or enacted hundreds of bills addressing immigration since 2007, the last time a federal effort to reform immigration law collapsed. Last year, there were a record number of laws enacted (222) and resolutions (131) in 48 states, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
The prospect of plunging into a national immigration debate is being increasingly talked about on Capitol Hill, spurred in part by recent statements by Senator Harry Reid, Democrat of Nevada, the majority leader, that he intends to bring legislation to the Senate floor after Memorial Day.
But while an immigration debate could help energize Hispanic voters and provide political benefits to embattled Democrats seeking re-election in November ??? like Mr. Reid ??? it could also energize conservative voters.
It could also take time from other Democratic priorities, including an energy measure that Speaker Nancy Pelosi has described as her flagship issue.
Mr. Reid declined Thursday to say that immigration would take precedence over an energy measure. But he called it an imperative: ???The system is broken,??? he said.
Ms. Pelosi and Representative Steny H. Hoyer, Democrat of Maryland and the majority leader, have said that the House would be willing to take up immigration policy only if the Senate produces a bill first.
Helene Cooper and Carl Hulse contributed reporting from Washington.
From Arizona Enacts Stringent Law on Immigration - NYTimes.com
Update:
In February 2011, Arizona filed a countersuit against the federal government in the United States v. Arizona case, accusing it of failing to secure the Mexican border against large numbers of illegal immigrants.
Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne acknowledged that precedent surrounding sovereign immunity in the United States made the state's case difficult, but said, "We're asking the 9th Circuit to take a second look."
On April 11, 2011, the Ninth Circuit panel upheld the district court's ban on parts of the law taking effect, thus ruling in favor of the Obama administration and against Arizona. Judge Richard Paez gave the majority opinion, in which Judge John T. Noonan, Jr. joined; Judge Carlos Bea dissented in part.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arizona_SB_1070#cite_note-wapo-9thpanel-220 Paez agreed with the administration's view that the state had intruded upon federal prerogatives. Noonan wrote in his concurrence: "The Arizona statute before us has become a symbol.
For those sympathetic to immigrants to the United States, it is a challenge and a chilling foretaste of what other states might attempt."http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arizona_SB_1070#cite_note-wapo-9thpanel-220 On May 9, 2011, Governor Brewer announced that Arizona would appeal directly to the U.S. Supreme Court rather than request a hearing en banc before the Ninth Circuit. Bolton's court continues to oversee the other lawsuits.
From Arizona SB 1070 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
