From Basketball to Baseball, Professional Athletes Speak Out in Opposition to AZ Immigration Law. Steve Nash of the Phoenix Suns is a two-time NBA MVP.
He was born in South Africa and raised in Canada said,
I am against it. I think that this is a bill that really damages our civil liberties. I think that it opens up the potential for racial profiling and racism. I think that it’s a bad precedent to set for our young people. I think it represents our state poorly in the eyes of the nation and the world.
I think we have a lot of great attributes here and I think it’s something that we can do without and I think it hopefully will change a lot in the coming weeks.
Charles Barkley once called himself a Republican. But a couple of years ago he said, ‘Well, I used to be a Republican, until the Republicans lost their damn minds.’ speaking about how utterly toxic this law is, both for the state of Arizona and for the country.