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Dear Sir/Mdm:

I am writing to inform you that my family and I, who are avid baseball fans will boycott MLB for the first time in our lifetime. For every dollar we would have spent on baseball, we will spend in Arizona. I am encouraging everyone I know to do the same and am having a favorable response from all of them.

Your support of criminals (no matter what form that takes, in this case ILLEGAL immigrants) is against everything we stand for.

We have no problem with immigration. We have several friends and coworkers who immigrated here through legal means, or their parents did. We appreciate the diversity the various cultures give our country. However, we feel it is terribly unjust thsoe who showed the integrity and responsibility here legally, to turn a blind eye to those who come here illegally. We believe as do most people we know, that the lack of enforcement of immigration laws is allowing a lot of criminals and drug dealers to come here, increasing crime in certain locations to levels that have become unbearable.

This immigration law is no different than the Federal law, the difference is it gives Arizona the ability to enforce the law, since the feds are NOT doing their job and haven’t for decades. The main argument is that it will lead to profiling, but those who say that have not understood the law which specifically disallows this as stated. I am asked for my ID when I buy alcohol. That is profiling too. This immigration law is no different than that.

I wonder if the bottom line is people like your organization really have no respect or confidence in our law enforcement. I know many of my local policemen and I trust them to protect me over Federal government any day of the week. I am amazed at this mindset, honestly, when it is these fine men and women who protect us day in and day out, while our national government is busy coddling our national enemies.

I hope you will reconsider your stance, knowing that 70% of Americans are in favor of this bill. I bet a lot of them watch baseball. After all it is as American as apple pie. Or at least it used to be.