Dennis Miller: Los Suns

Last night, Dennis Miller weighed in on the decision by the Phoenix Suns to don "Los Suns" on their jerseys for Wednesday's game.

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BILL O'REILLY: Now you're a big sports guy. And how about 'Los Suns'? The Phoenix Suns basketball team wearing a new jersey, "Los" -- that means 'The Suns.' Now, of course, they're a bunch of pinheads because if they really wanted to honor Cinco de Mayo today and the Hispanic community, it'd be 'Los Sols.' 'Sols' is sun in Spanish. I guess they don't even know that. But this is off the Arizona new law. Again, political correctness coming right back at us.

DENNIS MILLER: Listen, first off, I think the world of Steve Nash, but I heard him talking about this today, and it sounds like kid-like stuff to me.

Steve, what if we were empathetic with the illegals coming in and we met them at our border and gave them all a shower and a full hot meal and a hundred American dollars and put them in a beautiful Stratocruiser bus and took them up -- you're Canadian -- to the Canada border, and just set them free across the border? You know you'd have problems with that.

This isn't a racist thing.

This is what happened: A patriarchal figure, a rancher in the community was killed.

I empathize with his family first, not somebody who's hypotheticalizing months down the road they're gonna get pulled over by some rogue cop.

This is a signal flare from the state of Arizona. They've thrown up their hands. They don't know what to do. The Titanic is listing and this is a flare to get some attention.

I'm empathetic, too. But right now, I'm empathetic to the family who's looking up at the end of their dining room table and the old man's dead 'cause he was croaked by some drug addict who was in the country illegally from Mexico.

I'll get to the empathy for the guy who might be rousted by a bad cop down the road. Right now, my heart aches for that family and that guy.

It bothers me that the immigration debate isn't an honest discussion.

I'm not against immigration at all. I have a problem with people being in the country ILLEGALLY, breaking our laws.

To accuse others of being racist just for believing our laws should be enforced is off base.

Let's be fair. Mexico's illegals laws are tougher than Arizona's new law.

Mexican President Felipe Calderon denounced as "racial discrimination" an Arizona law giving state and local police the authority to arrest suspected illegal immigrants and vowed to use all means at his disposal to defend Mexican nationals against a law he called a "violation of human rights."

But the legislation, signed April 23 by Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, is similar to Reglamento de la Ley General de Poblacion — the General Law on Population enacted in Mexico in April 2000, which mandates that federal, local and municipal police cooperate with federal immigration authorities in that country in the arrests of illegal immigrants.

Under the Mexican law, illegal immigration is a felony, punishable by up to two years in prison. Immigrants who are deported and attempt to re-enter can be imprisoned for 10 years. Visa violators can be sentenced to six-year terms. Mexicans who help illegal immigrants are considered criminals.

The law also says Mexico can deport foreigners who are deemed detrimental to "economic or national interests," violate Mexican law, are not "physically or mentally healthy" or lack the "necessary funds for their sustenance" and for their dependents.

I'm sick of this double standard.

I'm sick of the dishonesty.