Carlos Santana
Carlos Santana was on July 20, 1947, in Autlán de Navarro, Mexico. He moved to San Francisco in the early 1960s, and then later formed the Santana Blues Band in 1966. The band, that came to be Santana, signed a contract with Columbia Records. Throughout the 1970s and early '80s, He and his band released many successful albums. In 2009, he received a Lifetime Achievement Award, and in 2013, he became a Kennedy Center Honors recipient.
Carlos Santana has always been very vocal about his stance on illegal immigration in the United States. Being of Latino descent himself, he found it unjustifiable that undocumented people get treated as second class citizens and are discriminated against for "stealing jobs". He used his platform to raise awareness of the issue and admonish the broken Immigration system. At the annual Civil Rights Game he was receiving the Beacon of Change Award and he decided to use it as a platform to criticize Georgia and Arizona for their new immigration laws. He referred to the new bill, HB 87, signed by the Georgia Governor Nathan Deal that set stricter immigration laws in place in Georgia, and it mirrored laws SB 1020 and HB 2162 because the bill requires many employers to check the immigration status of hired persons and allows law enforcement to check the legal status of a person who is susceptible.(reason) He went on to say: “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.” (reason) Due to this action Carlos Santana was able to raise awareness and garner support, which will all work towards The White House passing The Immigration Reform.