Selig Can Send Message on Arizona Immigration Law
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Selig Can Send Message on Arizona Immigration LawSelig Can Send Message on Arizona Immigration LawIn 18 years as the head of Major League Baseball, #x Bud Selig has been fed a steady stream of fastballs. There have been labor fastballs and steroid fastballs, pitches he has learned how to hit. Lately, he has been taking his hacks at human growth hormone fastballs.pandora beadsBut just as he was getting a bead on that pitch, just as he was moving toward H.G.H. testing in the minor leagues, fate has thrown Selig a nasty changeup. Now comes the Arizona immigration law, an issue that has so handcuffed Selig that he has been unable to react.And if this legacy-conscious commissioner is not careful, or perhaps if he is too careful, he will whiff on this issue without ever taking the bat off his shoulder.Last week,Needle Felt, Gov. Jan Brewer of Arizona signed the nation’s toughest law against illegal immigration. The law makes the failure to carry immigration documents a crime and directs the police to question people about their immigration status and demand to see their documents if there is reason to suspect they are illegal. #xThe outcry has been immediate,pandora beadsand baseball has been dragged into the fray. The major leagues, after all, have a substantial number of Hispanic players, have a team in Phoenix, and half of the teams conduct spring training in Arizona.At least one New York Congressman has urged baseball to move the 2011 All-Star Game out of Phoenix. Other groups have called on people not to fly Tempe-based US Airways or rent trucks from Phoenix-based U-Haul or go to Arizona Diamondbacks games.The American Immigration Lawyers Association canceled a fall conference to be held at a resort in Scottsdale. The nation’s oldest black fraternity, Alpha Phi Alpha,pandora beadsannounced Friday that it would move its July convention to Las Vegas from Phoenix.Baseball’s players union has also weighed in, #x saying it opposed the new law and expressing concern about the way in which foreign-born players and their families would be affected.相关的主题文章：
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