{"id":383,"date":"2011-08-08T13:56:11","date_gmt":"2011-08-08T17:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=383"},"modified":"2015-08-21T10:45:33","modified_gmt":"2015-08-21T14:45:33","slug":"illegal-immigration-baseball-and-%e2%80%9cracial-sensitivity%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2011\/08\/08\/illegal-immigration-baseball-and-%e2%80%9cracial-sensitivity%e2%80%9d\/","title":{"rendered":"Illegal Immigration, Baseball, and \u201cRacial Sensitivity\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s not often that the issue of immigration and sports run into each other, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediabistro.com\/sportsnewser\/tony-bruno-issues-apology-about-illegal-alien-tweet_b12723\" target=\"_blank\">a comment made last Friday<\/a> by a talk show host on his Twitter account has dropped the issue of illegal immigration smack in the middle of America\u2019s favorite pastime.<\/p>\n<p>During last weekend\u2019s Philadelphia Phillies and San Francisco Giants series (a rematch of last year\u2019s National League championship series) Giants reliever Ramon Ramirez drilled Phillies\u2019 outfielder Shane Victorino with a pitch causing a bench-clearing brawl. Nationally syndicated sports talk show host Tony Bruno took to Twitter in criticizing Giants\u2019 manager Bruce Bochy for having his \u201cillegal alien\u201d pitcher hit Victorino. Bruno deleted the tweet immediately, but not before it was retweeted and forwarded out in the online world. While Bruno issued an official apology for his tweet on his Facebook page, he was still accused of being \u201cracially insensitive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There is no reason to believe that Ramon Ramirez is an illegal alien \u2013 Major League Baseball has no problem securing non-immigrant P visas for foreign athletes \u2013 and Bruno\u2019s unsubstantiated tweet was certainly in bad taste. But what is also remarkable is that the mainstream media is now labeling a term that is listed in encyclopedias and dictionaries and has been widely used to describe foreigners who are in the U.S. without permission, as being \u201cracially insensitive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As is easily understood, immigrants \u2013 whether legal or illegal \u2013 represent all races, so it is an obvious confusion to conflate concern about illegal immigration with racism. What are your thoughts about this \u201cincident\u201d and the push by the mainstream media to \u201clegitimize\u201d illegal aliens?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s not often that the issue of immigration and sports run into each other, but a comment made last Friday by a talk show host on his Twitter account has dropped the issue of illegal immigration smack in the middle of America\u2019s favorite pastime. During last weekend\u2019s Philadelphia Phillies and San Francisco Giants series (a<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2011\/08\/08\/illegal-immigration-baseball-and-%e2%80%9cracial-sensitivity%e2%80%9d\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1513,6,4,10,7],"tags":[1209,354],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9909,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383\/revisions\/9909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}