One side of debate over Arizona’s immigration law is boiled down to a tee

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The Phoenix Suns wore their sympathies on their shirts in Wednesday night’s NBA playoffs, becoming ‘Los Suns’ and causing quite a stir about mixing basketball with the political debate over Arizona’s new immigration law. You can read all about it at our sister blog, Top of the Ticket.

But we know there are plenty of other folks who will want to let their shirts do the talking too -- and so does Surropa.com, which sells what it describes as ‘the ultimate collection of the best of Latino-inspired street fashion available in the United States.’

During the last week of April, the company had a contest on its Facebook page asking its friends to submit ideas for T-shirt slogans based on the immigration controversy. Now several of the winning designs have been incorporated into T-shirts and are available to purchase on Surropa.com for $19.95 each.

The tees are pretty much for people who are against the new law -- one has a slogan in Spanish that roughly translates to ‘Arizona, kiss my grits.’ For the higher-minded, another (shown above) paraphrases the famous words of Jose de la Cruz Porfirio Diaz, president of Mexico from 1876 to 1911: ‘Poor Mexico, so far from God, and so close to the United States.’

If, unlike the Suns, you’d rather stick to sports and keep politics off your chest, Surropa.com also has plenty of sports-related shirts among its offerings. My favorite screams ‘GOAL GOAL, GOAL’ and it’s just in time for the World Cup!

-- Susan Denley