Carroll Rogers wrote in the AJC 15 May 2011,

Santana blasts Georgia immigration bill before Braves game:

Legendary rock guitarist Carlos Santana, in town to be honored for a
“Beacon of Change” award at Sunday’s MLB Civil Rights Game at
Turner Field, called the state’s new immigration law “anti-American.”

Santana took his turn at the podium on the field in a pre-game ceremony
before the Braves-Phillies game to criticize the immigration bill just
signed into law by Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal Friday.

“I represent the human race,” the Mexican-born Carlos Santana
said. “The people of Arizona, the people of Atlanta, Georgia, you
should be ashamed of yourselves.”

The Georgia immigration law, HB 87, cracks down on illegal immigration
by increasing enforcement powers and requiring many employers to check
the immigration status of new hires.

And this is just the start of

what’s going to happen to Georgia as long as that law is in effect.

But what do you really think, Carlos?

“This is about fear, that people are going to steal my job,” Santana
said of the law. “No we ain’t. You don’t clean toilets and clean
sheets, stop shucking and jiving.”

Santana referenced his 1960s rock-n-roll background and said he is an
artist unafraid to speak out.

“It’s an anti-American law. It’s a cruel law, actually,” Santana
said. “If you all remember what it was like here with Martin Luther
King and the dogs and the hoses, it’s the same thing, only it’s high
tech. So let’s change it.”

Immigrants won’t steal your jobs, unless they’re turned into prisoners
in private prisons and hired out at wages nobody can compete with.

-jsq