Posted on 05/13/2010 12:58:38 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
As a protest against Arizona’s controversial immigration law, the chambers of commerce from Nuevo Laredo to Matamoros have agreed to set May 25 as a “Day Without Mexicans” on the South Texas border. Business leaders are calling on all Mexican nationals to avoid crossing the international bridges into the United States for any reason, but particularly for shopping, on that day.
“Our action will be united and preventive,” said Emilio Girón Fernández de Jáuregui, president of the Nuevo Laredo Chamber of Commerce.
As have many Mexican officials, Girón Fernández de Jáuregui criticized Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer for criminalizing the lack of documents when “historically, Mexican nationals have left their money in border cities.”
He added that business owners and merchants traditionally have rejected and protested measures that violate human rights. Contrary to earlier reports, there are no plans to block the international bridges as part of the May 25 protest, Girón Fernández de Jáuregui said.
The decision to ask Mexican citizens to avoid traveling to the United States on May 25 was the result of a conference called by the national Chambers of Commerce earlier this week. Chamber officials from each of the cities along the Texas-Mexico border agreed to the plan and will develop their own ways of calling for the boycott.
“It will be a grand moment of solidarity among border Mexicans,” Girón Fernández de Jáuregui said.
Some Texas civic leaders were concerned about the protest, saying that it wasn’t fair to penalize Texas businesses for something that Arizona had done. Several Texas leaders, including Gov. Rick Perry, have said Texas would not follow Arizona’s lead.
“It’s true that Texas hasn’t adopted such a measure, but we’ve already heard that some legislators are considering carrying a bill that would make criminals out of those without documents,” Girón Fernández de Jáuregui said.
The chamber leader emphasized that Mexican workers in the United States are good people who help strengthen the U.S. economy and have helped it grow.
“Our interest is to defend the honor of each Mexican, with or without papers, in the United States,” Girón Fernández de Jáuregui said.
Please practice a Day Without Mexicans in L.A.!! I’d just like to imagine a day where only people who are legally supposed to be here are on the freeway!
Nuevo Laredo Chamber of Commerce?
what a job that must be? lol
“let’s turn that into a full decade?”
And while we’re at it how about boycotting the whole USA instead of just one state.
1. 40% of all workers in L.A. County ( L.A. County has 10.2 million people) are working for cash and not paying taxes.
2. 95% of warrants for murder in Los Angeles are for illegal aliens.
3. 75% of people on the most wanted list in Los Angeles are illegal aliens
4. Over 2/3 of all births in Los Angeles County are to illegal alien Mexicans on Medi-Cal , whose births were paid for by taxpayers.
5. Nearly 35% of all inmates in California detention centers are Mexican nationals here illegally.
6. Over 300,000 illegal aliens in Los Angeles County are living in garages.
7. The FBI reports half of all gang members in Los Angeles are most likely illegal aliens from south of the border.
8. Nearly 60% of all occupants of HUD properties are illegal.
9. 21 radio stations in L.A. are Spanish speaking.
10. In L.A. County 5.1 million people speak English, 3.9 million speak Spanish.
(There are 10.2 million people in L.A. County ).
(All of the above are from the Los Angeles Times)
Less than 2% of illegal aliens are picking our crops, but 29% are on welfare.
29% of inmates in federal prisons are illegal aliens.
For those looking for work, it sounds like this is a great opportunity.
It's a small organization. Just the funeral home.
OH NOES!!! NO BURRITOS!!!
Hey! Why stop there? Lets go for a couple years without illegals. If it works out maybe we could build the fence and secure the borders while they are gone!
Gee, that would be a day where most people on the road would actually have car insurance.
Hahahahaha! Why come to the US and spend 10 times more for what they can get back home. How about they just not ever cross the bridge, river, desert, etc.
Last week a student was filling me in on these gangs...
That’s OK Jackass, I know how to make that stuff as do many of GOOD Americans.
That’s fine. I can mow my own yard and make great enchiladas. Seal the border!
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I’m planning my own Day Without Mexicans.
The funeral home is probably doing a “bang up” business.
Seriously, how can you market a town that has murders and beheadings every day? What could you possibly say to “entice” visitors or businesses?
it reminds me of the time the grapefruit pickers said they would go on strike so the growers paid an engineer to develope a picking machine.
How about all Americans start employing Americans to cut there lawns and do dirty work. As it is now, they are ruining our country. I wish they all would leave.
Dinners to die for at our restaurants
"Killer deals" on cars...if you don't mind bullet holes, blood and broken windows.
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