Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ) is urging the Major League Baseball Players’ Association to boycott next year’s All-Star Game in Phoenix over the recently passed Arizona law to crack down on illegal immigrants.
Senator Menendez says in a letter that 27 percent of Major League players are Latinos and they shouldn’t be subjected to a law Menendez says codifies racial profiling.
Of course, Menendez fails to recognize that the 27 percent of Latino baseball players he refers to are all in the U.S. legally, unlike the illegal immigrants the law is directed towards.
MLB Players’ Association executive director Michael Weiner has come out against the law as well, saying it could negatively impact hundreds of players. Weiner, too, has a misguided opinion suggesting that Latino players could be negatively impacted.
Many of baseball’s Latino players are making millions of dollars and pay taxes. Those tax dollars are used, in part, to subsidize services provided to illegal immigrants.
If anyone is being negatively impacted, it’s those who have immigrated to the U.S. legally.
Weiner and Menendez are trying to use Latino major league baseball players as pawns in their efforts to thwart a law they don’t like.
Moreover, if anyone had actually read the law, they would know that it scrutinizes only those people who police stop, detain or arrest.
It bars law enforcement officers from solely using race as grounds for suspecting someone is in the country illegally.
What Menendez and so many others around the nation fail to mention while they scream about the injustice of Arizona’s immigration law is the fact it’s directed at illegal immigrants – you know – those who are in the U.S. illegally.
Had the idiot politicians in Washington addressed the issue years ago when the problem began, perhaps the state of Arizona wouldn’t have needed to pass such a controversial law.
When politicians like Menendez want to direct your attention away from the real issue, their solution is to punish the city of Phoenix by preventing it from gaining the economic impact the All-Star game would surely provide.
Despite what the politicians are telling you, the Stimulus package didn’t work as evidenced by the nation’s 9.9 percent unemployment rate, the same unemployment rate Mr. Obama said wouldn’t go above 8 percent if the $787 billion package was enacted.
Boycotting the All-Star game in Phoenix wouldn’t limit the adverse economic impact to those who approve of the law.
It would also impact those immigrants residing in the Phoenix area who entered the country legally. Those immigrants are overwhelmingly of Latino decent, but Menendez, like most idiot politicians, aren’t smart enough to realize that.
Boycotting the All-Star game isn’t going to solve the nation’s illegal immigration problem, it’s not going to solve the nation’s economic problems and it’s not going to solve Washington’s consistent inability to proactively address the nation’s most pressing issues.
Since Menendez is a party to the utter failure that has become Washington, perhaps it would be best that he focus his attention on the real issues and stay the hell out of baseball.
