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Boycott Called For Monday in Response to Immigration Raids

Sep 30, 2007 03:54 PM EDT

A group of Hispanics in Reno have called for a three-day boycott of all businesses in northern Nevada after a federal raid in which 54 suspected illegal workers were arrested.

The group of about 60 people also called for a strike by all Hispanic workers on Wednesday, the final day of the boycott.

They also called for a rally and a march for Reno's federal courthouse in support of those arrested.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials on Thursday raided 11 McDonald's restaurants owned by Reno businessman Luther Mack, leading to the arrests of several employees.

Mack said he is working with the Department of Labor and immigration authorities to pay the employees who were arrested. He said payment has been made difficult because the federal government seized payroll records.

(Copyright 2007 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

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Originally Posted by Nouveauxpoor

Boycott Called For Monday in Response to Immigration Raids

Sep 30, 2007 03:54 PM EDT

A group of Hispanics in Reno have called for a three-day boycott of all businesses in northern Nevada after a federal raid in which 54 suspected illegal workers were arrested.

The group of about 60 people also called for a strike by all Hispanic workers on Wednesday, the final day of the boycott.

They also called for a rally and a march for Reno's federal courthouse in support of those arrested.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials on Thursday raided 11 McDonald's restaurants owned by Reno businessman Luther Mack, leading to the arrests of several employees.

Mack said he is working with the Department of Labor and immigration authorities to pay the employees who were arrested. He said payment has been made difficult because the federal government seized payroll records.

(Copyright 2007 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

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You guys boycott all you want, it only pisses us off even more. As for myself I have boycotted everything Hispanic since Mayday of 2006 and will continue my boycott the rest of my life.

THE MORE THEY WHINE, THE MORE I CALL AND EMAIL. THEY ACTUALLY FUEL MY PERSONAL CAMPAIGN AGAINST THEM.

It seems to me a boycott or even a strike could be just as effective if conducted from Old Mehico. Thus, I'd recommend they take a short walk to the long river.

They can boycott all they want. I have no sympathy for these free loaders. Hope ICE continues to raid all of Mcdonalds(they need to raid all the fast food places here in Houston). I no longer shop at Walmart, and no longer eat at any fast food place that employs illegals.

We had better send thank-you cards to the boycotters. That will be three days McDonald’s is not poisoning the public!

Immigration raid brings boycott call in Reno
STEVE TIMKO
RENO GAZETTE-JOURNAL
Posted: 9/29/2007

Reacting to Thursday’s raid on more than 50 suspected illegal workers, a gathering led by two Hispanic groups voted Saturday to boycott all Northern Nevada businesses on Monday through Wednesday, and also to not work and to hold a march Wednesday on Reno’s federal courthouse.

The group also called for a boycott of Reno radio station KKOH and its afternoon talk show host, Bill Manders.

About 60 people attended the meeting at the El Cordero de Dios Assemblies of God Church in Reno. The meeting lasted almost two hours.

It was organized by a Salvadoran unity group, Sociedad De Salvadorenos Unidos De Nevada Cooperando Con Atiquizaya (SSUNCA), and Casa Latina Centro de Informacion.

Casa Latina President Gilbert Cortez disputed a Reno Gazette-Journal description on Saturday that the boycott originally discussed on Thursday had fizzled.
“The boycott was not in effect starting Friday,â€

Another greart day without an illegal alien. Boycott is expected to have little effect on Nevada's economy. The only ones that is going to feel it will the illegal aliens that do not go to work and will not get paid.
What happen to the month long boycott that was called for?
Luther is not talking because he is trying to figure out how to save his own butt. The next day after the raid all his resturants were back in business and that shows illegal workers are not needed and they can easily be replaced. They have been brained-washed to think that they are really doing jobs that American will not do.

WHO CARES? Let them boycott all they want to. Do they really believe that any descent business will go under because they won't be shopping there for a few days? Maybe a few "Dollar Stores" and some fast food "joints" might be affected, but that's no loss. Who knows, maybe it will help clean things up in the Reno area.
THE MORE THEY PROTEST, THE MORE THEY LOOK LIKE FOOLS! I would be afraid to see a mob of unruly illegal aliens dressed with gang-like bandanas, beating on drums, and shouting in spanish. Some of them even wear war-paint. ICE SHOULD WAIT AT THE COURTHOUSE, PICK ALL OF THEM UP, AND DEPORT THEM!

ICE raid protesters, supporters face off
Geralda Miller (GMILLER@RGJ.COM)
RENO GAZETTE-JOURNAL
October 3, 2007

Hundreds of Hispanics marched on Reno streets Wednesday in protest of a raid last week by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers at 11 McDonald's restaurants.

The crowd was filled with young people who skipped school and mothers pushing strollers.

Six-year-old Julio Rodriguez, a first-grader at Smithridge Elementary School, carried a sign that said: "ICE why did you take my mom? I want her back."

Other Hispanic and community leaders met at a different spot to talk about how to tame community tensions and formulate a plan to deal with the fallout of last week's raids, which led to the arrest of 54 illegal immigrants. And Sparks High School students stood Wednesday in silent demonstration of the raids, making the point that skipping school wasn't the way to demonstrate against the raids.

At the Bruce R. Thompson Federal Building, the gathering point for the march, the crowd waved American flags and chanted slogans. About a half-dozen people who supported the raids stood across the street.

About two dozen Reno police officers divided the groups.

Butch Bustabade, 37, of Stead, carried a sign that read "The party is over. I heart ICE. Go home."

"You just don't do what you want in this country," he yelled.

What the Hispanics who have immigrated to Northern Nevada really want to do is work, said Erica Lopez of Reno.

"If it wasn't for us, they wouldn't eat," the 20-year-old said. "We make their food."

She shouted to the counter protesters, "You need us."

The march, which started at Miguel Ribera Park, made a stop at KOH 780-AM radio, where the demonstrators expressed their concerns over comments made about undocumented workers on a talk show hosted by Bill Manders.

Officials at KOH would not comment on the march, and Manders did not return phone calls.

Debbie Kessler of Reno, who stood next to Bustabade, said she supported the ICE agents.

"The law is the law," she said. "They say if you enter this country illegally, you have to go home."

Veronica Mitchell questioned the right of the Hispanics to protest.

"If they're here illegally, how do they have the right to protest?" she said in an e-mail to the Reno Gazette-Journal.

She also said the march was "very disruptive to drivers."

Jazmin Martin, 16, of Sparks High School, said the immigration issue is exposing a deep-seeded racism when people assume all Hispanics are here illegally.

"I think they hate in general all Hispanics," she said.

Many young people in the crowd said they were concerned how the raids split up families and wanted to show their support. Some wore duct tape over their mouths -- to signify people they believe do not have a voice -- and handcuffs.

"That's pretty wrong that the raid destroyed the families," said Maritza Solis, a 13-year-old eighth-grader at Cold Springs Middle School. "We're only here to work, not to destroy the United States."

Shelsea Ramirez, 14, stood in the crowd with her teenage friends. She said participating in the rally was more important that going to school Wednesday.

John Perez, youth pastor at El Cordero de Dios Church in Reno, said he understood why so many young people attended the protest but could not condone them skipping school.

"As a youth pastor, I encourage education first," he said.

Community activist Roberto Nerey said it saddened him to see so many youths not in school.

"It's heartbreaking," he said. "If we're going to create change, we have to learn and if we're not in school, we're not learning."

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