10 Cities Boycotting Arizona Over Immigration Law

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The "Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act," SB1070, signed by Governor Jan Brewer on April 24th 2010 has sparked controversy throughout the world. Several major cities in the U.S. have denounced the bill as "racist" and "discriminatory" and are drafting legislation to effectively boycott the entire state of Arizona. The following 10 cities are leading the charge to boycott the new Arizona anti-immigrant law.

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Los Angeles - United States of America, North America

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said "No person should be treated differently in the eyes of the law," during a press conference to endorse the city's proposed boycott of Arizona. Councilwoman Janice Hahn has said, "If Arizona companies are taking our money, I want to sever that." Hahn also stated "When people are asked to show their papers, it brings back memories of Nazi Germany."

Under the new Arizona Law American citizens can be detained and fined for not carrying identification at all times.
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New York City - United States of America, North America

"It is irresponsible for any city, state or elected official to legalize racial profiling and discrimination. This shortsighted law is a step backward in our nation's ongoing struggle to provide civil rights for all," said New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

"Foreign investment and tourism are critical to our national economy, and this new law sends exactly the wrong message to international companies and travelers," Bloomberg said.

It has been reported that New York state assemblyman Adriano Espaillat asked immigrant players in Major League Baseball to boycott the anticipated 2011 All-Star game in Phoenix.
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San Francisco - United States of America, North America

San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsome has told city employees to avoid business dealings and travel to the Arizona, and city officials are preparing to end all contracts with Arizona-based companies.

The total (direct and secondary) impact of the Arizona travel industry in 2008 was 310,000 jobs and $10.2 billion earnings according to www.dailykos.com. California travel to Arizona accounted for 34% of all visitors.
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Austin - Texas, United States of America, North America

Austin Mayor Lee Leffingwell is joined by Austin’s city council members in proposing a ban on city travel to Arizona and haulting contracts with Arizona companies.

"Arizona’s legislation potentially has a direct impact on our employees, and is generally so offensive that I believe it demands our attention," said Leffingwell. The Mayor also stated, "I’m supporting this resolution because I believe that we have a responsibility not only to protect our own employees, but also to speak out loudly against racial discrimination wherever it exists."

"The law (SB1070) puts anyone traveling to the state in jeopardy of being detained, based on a law enforcement officer’s reasonable suspicion that person might be an undocumented immigrant," said Austin Councilman Bill Spelman. "That’s wrong, and I can’t responsibly allow our city employees to be placed at such a risk."
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Sacramento - United States of America, North America

Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson called for an economic boycott on Wednesday but began to reconsider later that day after Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon convinced him that sanctions would hurt the battered economy in Phoenix. Instead, Johnson has decided to discuss the "un-American" and "morally wrong" law with other elected officials in Arizona.

Gordon admitted that Phoenix has already lost five major conventions due to the anti-immigration law.

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brooklyn
New York at 3/14/2011 3:52 PM

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kimberly
10 Cities Boycotting Arizona Over Immigration Law at 7/31/2010 3:50 AM

First off. as a citizen of arizona i want to say, congratulations arpaio!

i have respect for immigrants who come here legally, but ones who hop the border to steal money from OUR government can pack their bags and go on home.

i am mostly of irish decent and have a little bit of native american in me so i have an olive skin tone. i am sick and tired of going places and not getting spoken to in ENGLISSSH!!

this is our country we fought hard against the world to make it ours and thats the way it needs to stay im so played out on this whole oh illegals are our friends, cause no they arent, we are in a national debt as it is and we dont need them taking more from us like a bunch of blood sucking varmints.
Allen T.
Inwood at 7/15/2010 3:41 AM

When possible I no longer contract business in any of the boycotting cities and I am shifting a maximum amount of work to AZ whenever possible. Mine is an offsetting action along with others who now do more business with AX. The AZ law is identical with Federal law except for being slightly weaker. The state of AZ is forced to take this action because the Federal government will NOT do so. Reason: Obama promised friendly immigration reform to Hispanics for their votes. To placate Hispanics Obama ordered ICE to only perform "make work" activities and to NOT deport any illegal aliens. Until pushed by AZ, he even had withdrawn the National Guard from that state. With the guard now reinstated, the Guard still does nothing but stand there -- identical with ICE workers. If ICE happens to remove illegal aliens from a business, the aliens are allowed to just walk away to return in a day or so. Federal law is being totally ignored. There is NO effective anti-immigration law. This is your Federal tax money NOT working for you. Alien workers do take jobs away from Americans by undercutting wages, and then they avoid paying tax to make up the difference. American taxpayers loose and Federal revenues decline. All of America looses! The aliens win with mostly tax-free earnings, free schools, free hospitals, all free social services including our court system and our prisons. The bill to US taxpayers is > $150 billion per year or > $800 per working American every year. If you think you don’t pay this cost, look again at your soaring US defect spending. So then, you say, make all aliens Americans citizens via amnesty? Wrong! Anyone who has learned to avoid paying taxes will continue the practice. And the alien birthrate is 2.5x that of Americans with 50% of those children on your Medicaid bill. You also pay for all those kids in school struggling with English as a foreign language and thus yielding only a 3 out of 4 graduation rate. Realize the aliens coming to the US are basically uneducated. Why do you think the US educational level is has dropped to 27th in the developed world. Why is our healthcare cost 2x that of the developed world? Aliens use the emergency rooms. Blame all these expenses on the excessively high illegal alien immigration rate. But the politicians know what to do. Give them amnesty hoping they will get their f*ture votes. Your job is to vote out the current spendthrift politicians out of office. Save America. No amnesty ever again.
Allen T.
San Diego at 7/15/2010 3:40 AM

When possible I no longer contract business in any of the boycotting cities and I am shifting a maximum amount of work to AZ whenever possible. Mine is an offsetting action along with others who now do more business with AX. The AZ law is identical with Federal law except for being slightly weaker. The state of AZ is forced to take this action because the Federal government will NOT do so. Reason: Obama promised friendly immigration reform to Hispanics for their votes. To placate Hispanics Obama ordered ICE to only perform "make work" activities and to NOT deport any illegal aliens. Until pushed by AZ, he even had withdrawn the National Guard from that state. With the guard now reinstated, the Guard still does nothing but stand there -- identical with ICE workers. If ICE happens to remove illegal aliens from a business, the aliens are allowed to just walk away to return in a day or so. Federal law is being totally ignored. There is NO effective anti-immigration law. This is your Federal tax money NOT working for you. Alien workers do take jobs away from Americans by undercutting wages, and then they avoid paying tax to make up the difference. American taxpayers loose and Federal revenues decline. All of America looses! The aliens win with mostly tax-free earnings, free schools, free hospitals, all free social services including our court system and our prisons. The bill to US taxpayers is > $150 billion per year or > $800 per working American every year. If you think you don’t pay this cost, look again at your soaring US defect spending. So then, you say, make all aliens Americans citizens via amnesty? Wrong! Anyone who has learned to avoid paying taxes will continue the practice. And the alien birthrate is 2.5x that of Americans with 50% of those children on your Medicaid bill. You also pay for all those kids in school struggling with English as a foreign language and thus yielding only a 3 out of 4 graduation rate. Realize the aliens coming to the US are basically uneducated. Why do you think the US educational level is has dropped to 27th in the developed world. Why is our healthcare cost 2x that of the developed world? Aliens use the emergency rooms. Blame all these expenses on the excessively high illegal alien immigration rate. But the politicians know what to do. Give them amnesty hoping they will get their f*ture votes. Your job is to vote out the current spendthrift politicians out of office. Save America. No amnesty ever again.
Allen T.
Oakland at 7/15/2010 3:39 AM

When possible I no longer contract business in any of the boycotting cities and I am shifting a maximum amount of work to AZ whenever possible. Mine is an offsetting action along with others who now do more business with AX. The AZ law is identical with Federal law except for being slightly weaker. The state of AZ is forced to take this action because the Federal government will NOT do so. Reason: Obama promised friendly immigration reform to Hispanics for their votes. To placate Hispanics Obama ordered ICE to only perform "make work" activities and to NOT deport any illegal aliens. Until pushed by AZ, he even had withdrawn the National Guard from that state. With the guard now reinstated, the Guard still does nothing but stand there -- identical with ICE workers. If ICE happens to remove illegal aliens from a business, the aliens are allowed to just walk away to return in a day or so. Federal law is being totally ignored. There is NO effective anti-immigration law. This is your Federal tax money NOT working for you. Alien workers do take jobs away from Americans by undercutting wages, and then they avoid paying tax to make up the difference. American taxpayers loose and Federal revenues decline. All of America looses! The aliens win with mostly tax-free earnings, free schools, free hospitals, all free social services including our court system and our prisons. The bill to US taxpayers is > $150 billion per year or > $800 per working American every year. If you think you don’t pay this cost, look again at your soaring US defect spending. So then, you say, make all aliens Americans citizens via amnesty? Wrong! Anyone who has learned to avoid paying taxes will continue the practice. And the alien birthrate is 2.5x that of Americans with 50% of those children on your Medicaid bill. You also pay for all those kids in school struggling with English as a foreign language and thus yielding only a 3 out of 4 graduation rate. Realize the aliens coming to the US are basically uneducated. Why do you think the US educational level is has dropped to 27th in the developed world. Why is our healthcare cost 2x that of the developed world? Aliens use the emergency rooms. Blame all these expenses on the excessively high illegal alien immigration rate. But the politicians know what to do. Give them amnesty hoping they will get their f*ture votes. Your job is to vote out the current spendthrift politicians out of office. Save America. No amnesty ever again.
Allen T.
El Paso at 7/15/2010 3:38 AM

When possible I no longer contract business in any of the boycotting cities and I am shifting a maximum amount of work to AZ whenever possible. Mine is an offsetting action along with others who now do more business with AX. The AZ law is identical with Federal law except for being slightly weaker. The state of AZ is forced to take this action because the Federal government will NOT do so. Reason: Obama promised friendly immigration reform to Hispanics for their votes. To placate Hispanics Obama ordered ICE to only perform "make work" activities and to NOT deport any illegal aliens. Until pushed by AZ, he even had withdrawn the National Guard from that state. With the guard now reinstated, the Guard still does nothing but stand there -- identical with ICE workers. If ICE happens to remove illegal aliens from a business, the aliens are allowed to just walk away to return in a day or so. Federal law is being totally ignored. There is NO effective anti-immigration law. This is your Federal tax money NOT working for you. Alien workers do take jobs away from Americans by undercutting wages, and then they avoid paying tax to make up the difference. American taxpayers loose and Federal revenues decline. All of America looses! The aliens win with mostly tax-free earnings, free schools, free hospitals, all free social services including our court system and our prisons. The bill to US taxpayers is > $150 billion per year or > $800 per working American every year. If you think you don’t pay this cost, look again at your soaring US defect spending. So then, you say, make all aliens Americans citizens via amnesty? Wrong! Anyone who has learned to avoid paying taxes will continue the practice. And the alien birthrate is 2.5x that of Americans with 50% of those children on your Medicaid bill. You also pay for all those kids in school struggling with English as a foreign language and thus yielding only a 3 out of 4 graduation rate. Realize the aliens coming to the US are basically uneducated. Why do you think the US educational level is has dropped to 27th in the developed world. Why is our healthcare cost 2x that of the developed world? Aliens use the emergency rooms. Blame all these expenses on the excessively high illegal alien immigration rate. But the politicians know what to do. Give them amnesty hoping they will get their f*ture votes. Your job is to vote out the current spendthrift politicians out of office. Save America. No amnesty ever again.
Allen T
St. Paul at 7/15/2010 3:23 AM

The city cited here is in Ramsey County, Minnesota not Missouri. The boycott actions are totally misdirected. If possible I no longer contract business in any of the boycotting cities and I am shifting a maximum amount of work to AZ when possible. Mine is an offsetting action along with others who now do more business with AX. The AZ law is identical with Federal law except for being slightly weaker. That state of AZ is forced to take this action because the Federal government will NOT do so. Reason: Obama promised friendly immigration reform to Hispanics for their votes. To keep his promise he ordered ICE to only do "make work" activities and to NOT deport any illegal aliens. Until pushed by AZ, he even had withdrawn the National Guard from that state. With the guard now reinstated, they still do nothing but stand there -- identical with ICE workers. If ICE removes illegal aliens from a business, the aliens are allowed to just walk away. Federal law is being totally ignored. There is NO effective anti-immigration law. This is your Federal tax money NOT working for you. Alien workers do take jobs away from Americans by undercutting wages and then they avoid paying tax to make up the difference. American taxpayers loose and Federal revenues decline. All of America looses! The aliens win with mostly tax-free earnings, free schools, free hospitals, all free social services including our court system and our prisons. The bill to US taxpayers is > $150 billion per year or > $800 per working American per year. If you think you don’t pay this cost, look again at your soaring defect spending. So then, you say, make all aliens Americans citizens via amnesty? Wrong! Anyone who has learned to avoid paying taxes will continue the practice. And the alien birthrate is 2.5x that of Americans with 50% of those children on your Medicaid bill. You also pay for all those kids in school struggling with English as a foreign language and thus yielding only a 3 out of 4 graduation rate. Realize the aliens coming to the US are basically uneducated. Why do you think the US educational level is has dropped to 27th in the developed world. Why is our healthcare cost 2x that of the developed world? Blame the excessively high illegal alien immigration rate. But the politicians know what to do. Give them amnesty hoping they will get their f*ture votes. Your job is to vote out the current spendthrift politicians out of office. Save America. No amnesty ever again.
Concerned
10 Cities Boycotting Arizona Over Immigration Law at 7/07/2010 1:04 PM

By boycotting arizona you don't hurt tHe lawmakers you hurt the citizens you hurt the average guy trying to support his family in this time of economic difficulty its unfair and cruel to boycott an already poor state.
Sam
10 Cities Boycotting Arizona Over Immigration Law at 7/07/2010 1:02 PM

I'm from Arizona and I am Hispanic. I am legally in this country and I really don't take offense by the new law. It is much unlike Nazi germany when you consider that the people being asked for papers are not supposed to be here. Also when you are caught unlike in Nazi Germany you are not sent to prison or concentrations camps you are simply sent home.
Rick
10 Cities Boycotting Arizona Over Immigration Law at 7/03/2010 5:04 PM

I am boycotting the boycotters. This is MY country, and I want it back.
Anonymous
10 Cities Boycotting Arizona Over Immigration Law at 6/18/2010 1:14 PM

We were a country founded on the backs of immigrants and now all the white people think they should be able to say stay out. ridiculous.
Anonymous
10 Cities Boycotting Arizona Over Immigration Law at 6/13/2010 6:35 PM

i'm tired of illegals in our proud state and country i just don't understand why everyone is with them it's stupid and the stupid illegals got some feeling like they earned the right to be here i say if you want to be in this country do the right thing and do the paperwork to become legal if you don't get out
Charles, Arizona
10 Cities Boycotting Arizona Over Immigration Law at 6/08/2010 7:15 PM

The idiots in our government were speaking out againt the Arizona State law before reading it and understanding that it is more restrictive and less violationg than the federal law or Californias state laws. The only real difference is that this one will be enforced. There is a reason it is called ILLEGAL immigration. Read the laws and un derstand them before looking like idiots in congress and this so called president... Hey.. want rights violations.. read the health care law that the dems passed without reading.
azmike
10 Cities Boycotting Arizona Over Immigration Law at 6/08/2010 1:15 PM

I think the person is refering to you people as the ones who are boycotting AZ; and this person is correcet, the immigrants will be hurt most, that is the legal immigrants being refered to. The people of Arizona are a melting pot of all races, religions, colors and so on. We the people are tired of the raping of our state and country from anyone who abuses our system. It is very clear that illegals are a major part of the raping and abusing; therefor we the people want the illegals to leave and we are refering to all colors and origin, meaning black,brown and oh yes the white guy too. The law enforcent of and in AZ do not propfile and they do not go after the brown skin people, they treat all people of all colors the same, they will arrest anyone who violates our laws without prejudice, thats thier job and they do it well., ask any white guy who has been arrested for a DUI and you will be told they were arrested and convicted and fined the same as any brown or black colored skinned people. We the people of Arizona who are here legally will not bend or cave in to any boycotts aimed at us; as a matter of fact we are now boycotting those fools who started the boycotts. Arizona business is up since the passing of the new law. I hope this helps clear things up for the fools out there. We as a people reguardless of our skin color are united on this and we will never be back down!!
badass
Oakland at 5/28/2010 4:50 PM

OAKLAND??? WHY??? O!!! RIGHT MOVE ALL THE ILLEGALS THERE........
badass
Los Angeles at 5/28/2010 4:48 PM

Los Angeles Has the most gangs in all of America.. and most of all the gangs are from Mexico.. GOOD KEEP ALL ILLEGAL IN L.A. THANK YOU!!!!
d roberts
Inwood at 5/23/2010 9:46 AM

Don't these Hispanic legal citizens care how wrong it is to sneak across OUR borders. Sorry for those who have died while doing so but our boys are dying in other lands for our country whose laws MUST be enforced. Curse on corrupt coyotes who rob, mistreat & cause the deaths of the sneaks.
Immigration can be done LEGALLY & those immigrants learn English & respect the flag of the USA otherwise they would not have chosen to come here. This is the land of the /free but not a free handout to criminal who break the laws ,overwhelm our public services & do not
support our country. Wake up citizens we are being kicked in the face by illegals. Property owners on the border have been abused & killed & our Own government
looks the other way. This is WRONG. The loudmouthed offenders rally & protest for civil rights they (as criminals are NOT entitled to. Wake up America! We have been secretly, sneakily invaded & it continues. Shame on all you elected officials who dont have the guts to stand up for the law. Wish I had a million $ to give Arizona merchants who are being HURT by this stupid reaction
&wish I could personally go to Arizona to congratulate the brave Gov who stands for law enforcement & protection of her people as Sarah Palin has done. We are being sabotaged from within our own country by liberal, selfish politicians & stupid Do gooders who don't respect our laws
d roberts
Inwood at 5/23/2010 9:22 AM

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d roberts
New York at 5/23/2010 9:07 AM

i'm terribly disappointed in Mayor Bloomberg whom I had admired for not READING the Gov.'s bill An honest person has NOTHING to fear if asked to show his ID Officer's are doing their DUTY when they investigate lawbreakers & that's the only time people are questioned There is NO racial profiling Shame on you Mayor.Politicians, who know better are lowering their standards- prostituting themselves, & going for Hispanic votes
tlaporte
10 Cities Boycotting Arizona Over Immigration Law at 5/17/2010 12:23 PM

Wow. 10 whole cities. If you'll notice, any 'artists' who have cancelled or pulled out of contracts in Arizona are exactly notable. This is a political issue, not economic. Has anyone considered that by trying to create financial hardship for Arizona, the illegal immigrants you are trying so hard to protect will be impacted as well. You people are fools.
1. Anonymous
  10 Cities Boycotting Arizona Over Immigration Law at 5/24/2010 5:49 PM
  
  It's more likely that illegal immigrants will be greater effected by being detained by law enforcement then the hardships of economic sanctions. Just a point of clarification, what people are you referring to when you say "you people are fools"?

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