Posted on 09/24/2004 6:51:18 PM PDT by LouAvul
SAN DIEGO (AP) - Angered by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's veto this week of a bill to allow illegal immigrants to drive legally in California, Hispanic leaders and pro-immigrant groups are organizing protests and a national boycott of the state in their campaign to win the licenses.
Supporters of the bill, which was approved by the Democratic-controlled Legislature, said the Republican governor will pay a political price for reneging on promises to reach a compromise. They charge that Schwarzenegger belatedly added a demand that such licenses be specifically marked to differentiate them from licenses held by U.S. citizens and legal residents, a suggestion many said would encourage discrimination and persecution.
"If this is the posture the governor wants to take, then our community is going to be forced to kick it up a notch," said Nativo Lopez, president of the Mexican American Political Association and Hermandad Mexicana, based in Southern California.
Lopez, who led a one-day state boycott in December over the same issue, said he will organize a national boycott to drive convention business away from such popular destinations as San Diego, Los Angeles, Anaheim and San Francisco.
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Now maybe you out of staters can see what we put up with.
Oh no!! A boycott??? The flea markets, liquor stores and pawn shops are going to suffer now. They should make a real boycott --- boycott the welfare offices, the free public schools --- so all the Spanish-classroom teachers could take a day off with no pay, the hospitals and free medical clinics.
It's articles like this that make me glad I don't have any offspring to watch this nation go down the gutters towards Brazil.
Yes...that's exactly what every other group claims as well: Log Cabin Republicans, Muslim Society of Florida, Cuban Elian supporters etc.
IDs have no business in the hands of criminal aliens.
should read: MEXICAN leaders and pro-ILLEGAL ALIEN groups.
Let 'em boycott, maybe the freeways might be uncrowded for a day or so. They'll still be lining up by the thousands at the welfare offices, though.
There's thousands of welfare recipients who could actually be working instead of collecting their checks and smokin' speed.
Wow, if Mexicans will boycott California because of this, it will help solve the illegal immigration problem.
How about this for a boycott. Leave the U.S. and never come back, only that will teach us the lesson we so richly deserve for not allowing lawbreaking invaders to get licenses.
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