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MEXICO, D.F.— To Americans what "hurts them and what they care about is their pockets". That was the conclusion to which migrant leaders arrived. Based on that logic, they asked all of Mexico to boycott U.S. businesses that promote anti-mexican actions.

On May 1, 2006 the Mexicans in the United States asked for the first time, solidarity of their countrymen, but they did not have echo; nevertheless, they did not lose hope that this measure can bring positive effects to their cause if the boycott is national.

They suggested not buying during a year, products of the business Kimberly Clark, property of the republican senator James Sensenbrenner, author and sponsor of the proposed bill HR4437, that would criminalize around 12 million immigrants lacking identity papers.

"We ask Mexican businessman Carlos X. González to stop distributing that brand in this country", asked Luis Angel Nieto, of the Coalition of Immigrant Rights of Sothern California.

The immigrants criticized that the government would permit businesses such as McDonald' s and Starbucks to pay eight dollars the workday in Mexico, when its products cost the same thing that in the United States, where they pay eight dollars, but by each hour.

"They are all the same. Therefore one must not consume their products, even if the boycott is for a short time, but let them feel the pressure", he added.

To sensitize the Mexicans that live in Mexico, Enrique Morones of the organization Borders Angels, considered necessary to do a campaign of diffusion regarding the abuses that the Americans commit against the undocumented.
"There would be more possibilities to promote a boycott from Mexico, but we should organize very carefully, so that it does not turn out to be counterproductive", he said.