Posted on 05/13/2010 6:55:24 AM PDT by laotzu
Today is 'A Day Without a Mexican,' as designated by Chambers of Commerce in northern Mexico as a response to the tough illegal immigration law in Arizona.
The chambers are encouraging people across several northern Mexico states not to enter the United states today to shop or to do business, and to withhold their patronage from any U.S. companies.
The name is a reference to the 2004 movie of the same name which portrays Mexican Americans withholding their labor in the US.
Ramiro Cavazos, President of the San Antonio Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, says he understands the frustrations of Mexicans and Mexican Americans.
"The only way we're going to see the impact that these types of bad laws have is to point out the economic impact along the border," Cavazos said.
As much as 90% of the economies of Texas border communities is based on trade with Mexico. Today's one day protest is seen as symbolic, but Cavazos says it points out how interrelated our economies are.
"I respect their decision and I think it shows that this is an economic issue and not an immigration issue," he said.
San Antonio's Mayor later today is expected to demonstrate the city's opposition to the Arizona law, but San Antonio is not expected to go as far as some major cities like Los Angeles and boycott Arizona companies.
If I do get any help around here its a local teenager so the day without a mexican means nothing to me.
In Phoenix, a day without Mexicans is like a day without kidnappings.
Hey illegals, how about a day without American money?
This is probably based on their experience working as household help for Hollywood elites. Those folks would likely crash and burn after two days without a Mexican.
The average working Arizonan won’t notice.
My thoughts exactly!
:-)
I support 365 days a year without illegal Mexicans!
“A Day Without a Mexican” sounds good to me!
No shite, “we will show them we won’t illegally come”
Mexicans are coming on buses as “freedom riders” lol.
“Today is ‘A Day Without a Mexican”
Reminds me of a South PArk episode when Canada went on strike......and no one cared.
Good for you.. That'll show those gawd-damned atheists..
I’m not trying to “show” anyone anything.
And your comment reveals more about your attitude than mine.
You are absolutely right. Those who employ illegals are current day slave owners. They are employing labor with limited options and profiting as a result. Any business that relies on a flow of impoverished third world workers to survive is guilty of explotation.
It would be great if all the illegals and their kids stayed home for a day. We would see what a relief it would be to our society to have them all gone home.
You are correct. They did this in Phoenix in 2007 to protest the employer sanction law. No one cared. It was mostly just joked about.
Why has no one presented the fact that every American has to carry identification or be subject to arrest?!?!? So sick of this crap!
If you are running short of them down there, we have some extras we could send you.
“You are absolutely right. Those who employ illegals are current day slave owners. They are employing labor with limited options and profiting as a result.”
No, no, no. That’s absolutely not what I’m saying. People who earn wages and are free to move on to another job are not slaves, no matter what they’re payed. I believe in a free market in labor, and if that means employers “exploit” the “underclass,” or whatever, so be it.
What I’m saying is that people who insist that we need a permanent underclass, imagining them as somehow below the marketplace and not prone to the usual laws of economics, are stupid. We didn’t need slavery, and we don’t need, I don’t even know what to call it. Semi-free labor? Labor is a commodity like anything else. Jobs will get done no matter we have to pay, even if it’s a little more, just like they were done after free slave labor disappeared.
For the record, I don’t care what anyone makes for an honest day’s work. I don’t care if it’s below minimum wage. Whatever they’re willing to work for, that’s the right price. Because they’re free to sell their labor for whatever price they can get, just like employers are free to buy labor for whatever they can get. That’s how it works with everything else, and that’s how it best works with labor. There’s no special government fairy dust that can come in and make everything fair and equal and blah, blah. Whenever anyone’s paid above the market rate, it comes out of something else.
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