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When baseball’s best players take the field in this year’s All-Star Game in Anaheim, California, there will likely be no controversy, but next year’s game in Arizona could see a fair amount as several civil rights groups are calling on Major League Baseball to change the venue of the 2011 game in protest of the Grand Canyon State’s new immigration law.

Various civil rights groups, along with a number of politicians and the Major League Baseball Player’s Association, have come out against the law, according to ESPN. Still, many people feel that the MLB should take the 2011 All-Star Game away from Arizona in response to the controversial law.

“It would be a very strong statement that professional sports do not tolerate racism and discrimination,” the Reverend Eric Lee, president of the Los Angeles chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, told the news source. “I’m hopeful he would [move the game]. Bud Selig seems to be a just man.”

The NFL moved the 1993 Super Bowl out of Arizona after the state failed to recognize Dr. Martin Luther King Jr Day as a national holiday.

Regardless of where next year’s All-Star Game is played, foreign nationals can become U.S. residents by participating in the EB-5 visa program, an investment-for-green card program.