Says La Opinion, the Spanish language daily in Los Angeles, citing the new Arizona immigration law that allows police to stop and question people based simply on a suspicion that they might not be citizens:

The law is a violation of basic civil rights. It also wrongfully asserts that states can set their own immigration policy when that is the exclusive jurisdiction of the federal government.

The Arizona law is based on inflammatory depictions of the undocumented —repeated by Governor Jan Brewer when she signed the executive order— to justify such a repressive piece of legislation.

There are two ways to fight this law: one is in the courts and the other is through direct action. As for the first, lawyers will be filing lawsuits challenging the law’s constitutionality. The latter, direct action, is a call to boycott the state of Arizona.

We express our outrage in the face of this abuse of power. We call for a boycott of all goods and services from Arizona and pledge to avoid tourism in the state as well. Let’s send a signal of our disgust with an arrogant state government that asserts powers it does not have in order to persecute a minority population.

Related: Refried Bean Swastikas Smeared On Arizona Capitol.

La Opinion editorial via Ben Smith.

Eli Sanders is The Stranger's associate editor. His book, "While the City Slept," was a finalist for the Washington State Book Award and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. He once did this and once won this,...

9 replies on “Boycott Arizona”

  5. My company or I will not do business in Arizona. My employees, family and I will not even fly thru this racist arid state if there is a stop over in Arizona. We will not order any products made or produced in Arizona, we will not buy from any vendor originating from Arizona, not even from Ebay shops that are Arizona based. This racist state will need to sink with its hatred.
    Thanks. I beg all decent Americans to join me and send a message. I hope there will be ads running on TV asking people to boycott AZ.

  7. Man, what *is* it with this place? Is there no end to the racist douchebaggery these people will get up to? And just how did Arizona manage to migrate all to the southwest, anyway? Seems like they should be stuck somewhere between Alabama and Mississippi…

  8. “douchebaggery”!?
    Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
    Oh! So funny!
    Douchebaggery!
    HAHAHAHAH!
    Oh! Let me catch my breath!
    Nope here I go again Hahahahahahaha!
    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!

  9. But seriously, trumped up suspicions aside.

    I just read that:
    “As of 2006, the United States accepts more legal immigrants as permanent residents than all other countries in the world combined.[1]”

    Good Lord!
    And we have somewhere in the vecinity of 11 million illegal ‘aliens’

    I dunno …I keep thinking how hard it would be if I wanted to become a Canadian citizen and I just can’t see all the outrage about enforcing current immigration laws.

    I may be wrong though.

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