Thread: Immigration Advocates Split Over Arizona Boycott

Immigration Advocates Split Over Arizona Boycott

By MARC LACEY
Published: September 14, 2011

PHOENIX — The boycott of Arizona is on. No, the boycott of Arizona is off. Deciding whether to visit this state, which may or may not be boycotted, is as disorienting as peering into the depths of the Grand Canyon.

After Arizona’s passage of controversial immigration legislation in April 2010, musicians canceled Arizona concerts, tourists canceled Arizona vacations and convention organizers bypassed Arizona in favor of less politically toxic states. But the very activists who put the boycott in place, hurting the state’s pocketbook in the process, are now divided over whether it ought to continue.

Some called for the boycott’s end last year, after a federal judge blocked the most contentious elements of the immigration law. Others have peeled off more recently, with the National Council of La Raza, a Latino advocacy group, announcing on Friday that it no longer backed the boycott. Still other activists have dug in their heels, insisting that Arizona ought to remain off limits for the foreseeable future.

“There’s been confusion surrounding every aspect of this issue from the start,â€

[quote]One of the early public officials to back away from the boycott was Representative Raúl M. Grijalva, Democrat of Tucson, who found his constituents up in arms about the prospect of even more economic suffering.

“I am telling people to come back to Arizona,â€

All these entertainers need to go to the website that lists those killed by illegal aliens.....I wonder what they would think about that. They are probably totally unaware of the violent deaths by the hands of illegals.

Since I'm very familiar with what has been going on here in my backyard, I can tell you that the reason Derechos Humanos wants to continue the Boycott even the rest of them say it is over, is that they are the most extreme of the extreme. Their leader, Isabel Garcia, is a government worker, public paid, Pima County Public Defender. She basically only takes the cases of the Spanish speaking illegal aliens. She has the full support of the County Administrator, Chuck Huckleberry. She recently got in more public trouble, when she removed campaign fliers from peoples cars at a forum.

Nobody charged her with tampering with campaign materials.

Remember, she's also the one who paraded an effigy of Sheriff Joe Arpaio around a parking lot a few years ago.

Any wonder why this group is the only one holding out on ending the boycott?