White Sox manager disappointed at anti-immigrant Arizona law

White Sox manager disappointed at anti-immigrant Arizona law

By Colin Stephenson/The Star-Ledger
April 30, 2010, 7:24PM

NEW YORK – Chicago White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen, like a lot of other people in the United States, came to the country from somewhere else – Venezuela, in his case. So Guillen, in town with the White Sox, who are playing the Yankees in a three-game weekend series at Yankee Stadium, had strong feelings about the new Arizona law that allows police to demand to see proof of legal resident status from anyone they suspect to be an illegal immigrant.

“This is a very tough situation to myself, because I’m an immigrant,’’ Guillen said before Friday’s series opener. “I became an American citizen a couple years ago… The only thing that concerns me about this problem, they take people out of their jobs. People are working, all of a sudden they come and take them out – all those people who come here as immigrants is to work.’’

According to a report by the report released yesterday by the University of Central Florida’s Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sports 27 percent of major league baseball players in 2009 were Hispanic. And Friday, the Major League Baseball Players Association came out against the Arizona law, releasing a statement by the union’s executive director Michael Weiner that said the union “opposes this law as written. We hope that the law is repealed or modified promptly. If the current law goes into effect, the MLBPA will consider additional steps necessary to protect the rights and interests of our members.”

The union did not suggest what steps there might be, but baseball’s all-star game is supposed to be played in Arizona in 2011, and some have suggested perhaps the game could be moved or boycotted.
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http://www.nj.com/yankees/index.ssf/2010/04/white_sox_manager_disappointed.html

I've heard a lot of sports casters rip on him for his penchant for saying what he thinks. Personally, I admire that trait, even when he rips my Cubs.
And it's great that the MLBPA has come out against this monstrosity of a law. Pull the All Star game. Move it to Monterry, Mexico. Baseball is very popular in Latin America.

known about him..not being into baseball that much anymore.

But, I'm really liking The Major League Baseball Association speaking out and now Ozzie.

:shrug: