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Padres' Gonzalez Speaks Out Against Ump's Calls, Arizona Law {Fanhouse MLB Blog}

May 2nd 2010 9:34AM Jeannie, read the law before you comment on it. People can't be profiled and stopped because of how they look. The Arizona law enforcement folks can only ask for identification of legal residence if they are involved in some other intervention - a traffic stop, an altercation in a Phoenix sports bar, a girls' cat-fight. If a Canadian visitor, or one from China, or from the Middle East doesn't have documentation permitting legal presence - residency as a legal resident alien or a visitor/student/work visa with their passport, they can be handed over to the Federal immigration service. Where is the discrimination there?

Padres' Gonzalez Speaks Out Against Ump's Calls, Arizona Law {Fanhouse MLB Blog}

May 2nd 2010 9:27AM Yes, Gonzalez is right. The law is discriminatory - it permits law enforcement, when investingating a violation of another law, such as a driving infraction or a domestic violence call, to ask about the legal residency of the person questioned. If a Canadian in AZ, or an Aussie, or an Arab, or a Chinese citizen doesn't have the appropriate visitors' visa or passport or work visa or documentation of being a legal resident alien, they can be turned over to the federal immigration officers. We are asked for ID all the time - when using a credit card to make a purchase, when renting a movie at Blockbusters, when going through airport security. None of this affects us if we have proper documentation. To say that there should be extra benefits to allow other countries' citizens here illegally - in violation of the rules - makes as much sense as to set a strike zone and then grant Gonzales a few less inches above the knee and a few less inches inside (you don't think the other ballplayers who have to abide by the same sized strike zone set by the rules wouldn't be upset?

Don't Play Ball With State of Arizona {Fanhouse - Kevin Blackistone}

May 1st 2010 6:01PM Actually, Mexico treats very harshly the Guatemalans, Hondurans and others who come there seeking more opportunity than they have in their home countries. Very harshly

Don't Play Ball With State of Arizona {Fanhouse - Kevin Blackistone}

May 1st 2010 5:57PM Thank you Robert

Don't Play Ball With State of Arizona {Fanhouse - Kevin Blackistone}

May 1st 2010 5:51PM It's not the real issue. It's the only issue. The country (like all countries) has a process by which people apply for entry to visit or to work. One thing that is overlooked is the law also protects those who might consider running the border -- many of whom pay $$$ to a 'coyote' to smuggle them and then not only lose their money but risk losing their lives (or do lose their lives) when the coyote dumps them without food water and appropriate clothing in the middle of the desert

Don't Play Ball With State of Arizona {Fanhouse - Kevin Blackistone}

May 1st 2010 5:48PM Anita, you forgot Mexico - if you enter without legal documentation, the law states you can be imprisioned for 10 years

Don't Play Ball With State of Arizona {Fanhouse - Kevin Blackistone}

May 1st 2010 5:46PM This new law of Arizona's is nothing at all like the recognition by South Carolina of its historical Confederate past (although the flying of the Confederate flag was NEVER intended by South Carolina to show a racist attitude or to endorse slavery, etc.). This new law only permits state law officers to ask for residency documents of anyone they stop. I carry mine; and I would think that all citizens, resident aliens and business travelers would have driver's licenses, legal residence documentation or passports to establish their identity and lawful presence; it doesn't matter whether an individual is Asian, Nigerian, Canadian (and there are a lot of those in Arizona), Spanish, Eastern European, or Middle Eastern -- the law applies to everyone equally. Sort of like when you travel to Korea or Australia or Egypt or India and have to have your passport handy in case you have to show the visa stamps necessary for lawful entry and visitng (or working)

Don't Play Ball With State of Arizona {Fanhouse - Kevin Blackistone}

May 1st 2010 5:36PM I got pulled over for speeding a couple of days ago and the police officer asked me for my identification and car registration. I feel so humiliated and fear that I will be pulled over again and again. I think he was racist too.

Visser: NCAA Officials Says Expansion 'Will Happen,' Likely in '11 {Fanhouse NCAA Basketball Blog}

Mar 20th 2010 2:13AM If they don't 'desire' to play in the NIT, and favor playing in the NCAA Tournament, the answer is not expanding the field; it's for the teams to win more games and earn the trip. Sheeesh, is this rocket science? The fans do not want what the NCAA wants: more money for more games

Asylum Interviews the Pilot Who Landed His Plane on the New Jersey Turnpike {Asylum}

Feb 4th 2010 10:38AM Taking an awful risk? Putting MANY innocent people in danger? Are you reading the same article? Traffic was light; he didn't put innocents in danger. Give him credit. If it was daylight and the 'pike heavy with traffic, he'd likely have put it in a field or water..