Immigration law protesters at All-Star Game
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Posted: 07/12/2011
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By: Associated Press
PHOENIX - Critics of a polarizing immigration law in Arizona protested the legislation in triple-digit heat Tuesday outside Major League Baseball's All-Star Game in downtown Phoenix.
Two separate pro-immigrant groups protested outside of Chase Field before the game, with one quietly passing out white ribbons that symbolized peace and unity and the other loudly chanting in bullhorns and marching in circles with signs that read "Boycott hate" and "Stand with us."
SB1070 was passed by Gov. Jan Brewer in April.
It requires all immigrants to obtain or carry immigration registration papers and requires police, while enforcing other laws, to question people's immigration status if there is a reasonable suspicion they're in the country illegally.
The law is being challenged in federal court.
Associated Press
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