Protest At Wrigley Field Over Arizona Immigration Law (PHOTOS)

A protest outside the Chicago Cubs and Arizona Diamondbacks game at Wrigley Field Thursday drew an estimated 100 protesters--and led to one fan tearing up his ticket to the game.

"Arizona has legalized racial profiling. I cannot in good conscience go into this game," Paul D'Amato told a Chicago Sun-Times reporter outside the ballpark. He then ripped the ticket he'd bought to see the Cubs take on the Arizona Diamondbacks into pieces.

Demonstrators accused Diamondbacks management of supporting the Arizona Republican Party, which is behind the controversial bill:

"AMERICA, there is no doubt about it; the Arizona Diamondbacks are one of the top contributors to the Republican machine in Arizona that have unanimously voted for the draconian Arizona State Proposition SB1070," La Nueva Raza reports. "This bill will encourage the open racial profiling of 'brown people' in a state that has already been racially profiling immigrants for years beginning in the early 2000s when Sheriff Dever and his wife allowed and oftentimes encouraged Arizonan ranchers to 'hunt down' border crossers in Cochise County."

Check out photos from Thursday's protest here:

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Comments

[TRorHemingway]

11:12 PM on 06/09/2010

I think what Paul DAmato is saying here is that it isn't his property which is being regularly vandalized and robbed of ranch equipment and livestock by some of the groups of invading illegal immigrants that regularly cross his land. He hasn't been threatened by a drug cartel for impeding a shipment. Therefore, he is using his expert judgment of the problem from his window in Chicago to simply dismiss Arizona's frustration with these problems as racism.

On a similar note, I believe the ranchers in Arizona should look out their windows to judge whether or not the citizens of Chicago will need snow plow service this coming winter.

[SGlitz]

09:32 AM on 05/31/2010

More ignorant Liberals with their sanctimony stuck their backsides!
Yippee...
Read the law!
Then read the Federal Law.
Then Read Mexican Law.
Then you won't be so sanctimonious.

[ekiosity]

12:17 PM on 04/30/2010

Yes! Attack all the racists! Ha! Anyone for immigration rules is definitely a racist. Check out this footage of the so called racist teabaggers:

http://www.funnyconservatives.com/2010/04/tax-day-tea-party-racists-caught-saying-n-word/

[cotati08]

12:11 PM on 04/30/2010

I'm against the Arizona law. BUT - do you really think the major laegue baseball team has anything to do with it? Are you going to protest at Mets and Yankees' games over the Wall Street scandal too?
Save your energy for things you can actually have some impact on. This ain't one of 'em.

[cliffhammond]

05:14 PM on 05/01/2010

Not everyone caught the antecedent to this protest at a baseball stadium. Some clubs had expressed concern that events in Arizona might affect turnout for major league games. The Arizona Cardinals play in Phoenix. So protesters want to exploit this fear and make it a reality. There is already a tourism boycott in the works and a boycott of Arizona games or anyone who included Arizona on their schedule would add to the impact. It's just that baseball fans aren't someone you'd think about when it comes to such protests.

[SGlitz]

09:33 AM on 05/31/2010

I doubt these are really "fans".