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U.S. Democratic Rep. Raúl Grijalva is closing his Tucson and Yuma offices today at noon because of what he said were multiple death threats and threats of violence. Police are stationed outside his Tucson office, according to a statement from spokesman Adam Sarvana. Sarvana said the office received “some pretty scary calls,” including two from the same person, he said, “who threatened to go down there and blow everyone’s brains out then go to the border to shoot Mexicans.” Grijalva staffer Ruben Reyes said the office has been flooded with calls all week about Senate Bill 1070. About 25 percent are "very racist" in nature, Reyes said, characterizing some as "telling that tortilla-eating wetback to go back to Mexico." He said the staff feels "very intimidated" by the calls from this morning. Grijalva has been calling for a statewide boycott to pressure Gov. Jan Brewer into vetoing a controversial immigration bill that authorizes local law enforcement to check immigration status given reasonable suspicion.
PHOENIX, Arizona(Agencias)La gobernadora de Arizona, republicana Jan Brewer, desdeñó ayer las amenazas de un boicot económico contra esta entidad tras la promulgación el pasado viernes de la ley que criminaliza la inmigración indocumentada. “No creo que va a tener el tipo de impacto económico que alguna gente cree que pueda”, indicó Brewer, al responder una pregunta de la audiencia tras un discurso ayer en un hotel de Tucson, al Sur de Arizona. El representante federal demócrata Raúl Grijalva, y otras organizaciones y funcionarios han llamado a decretar un boicot contra la entidad. Fuera del hotel, unas 100 personas se manifestaron en contra de la promulgación de la ley portando letreros y gritando consignas. Un fuerte contingente de policías estatales y de la ciudad de Tucson, rodeó el hotel, sin permitir a las personas en autos y a pie el ingreso a la propiedad sin una debida identificación.
Calls for boycotting Arizona and its businesses because of its new anti-illegal-immigration law have begun spreading virally, showing Arizona what it's like to be unpopular in a social-media era in which protesters can organize at the drop of a tweet. A convention for immigration attorneys, scheduled for the Camelback Inn this fall, already has been canceled, and the state's business community has begun fighting back, urging groups and individuals not to boycott the state. They hope outsiders will see the new law not as something that casts Arizona as being unwelcoming to Hispanics but as a call to the federal government to enact immigration reform. The Arizona Hotel and Lodging Association on Monday set up its own Facebook page, "Don't Boycott AZ Tourism." The tagline: "Don't punish 200,000 tourism employees for politics." But calls to boycott Arizona businesses, convention and meeting sites, the Grand Canyon and even the Arizona Diamondbacks and other baseball teams that train in the state have been gaining momentum since Gov. Jan Brewer signed the bill into law on Friday. The law makes it a state crime to be in Arizona illegally and requires police and other law-enforcement agents to check documents of people they reasonably suspect to be illegal. Critics say the law can lead to racial profiling, although the governor said the law-enforcement community will be trained to avoid that. The nation's largest Spanish-language newspaper has called for a boycott, and the San Francisco Board of Supervisors is expected today to consider a resolution calling for an end to any business the city has with Arizona or any Arizona-based businesses. Some business groups fear Arizona could suffer deeper consequences. Hispanics could be discouraged from participating in the census, depriving the state of federal revenue. And several economists also say that the new law, combined with the 2008 employer-sanctions law, could make it harder to attract workers once the economy rebounds. Calls for boycotts San Francisco Supervisor David Campos and City Attorney Dennis Herrera have called on city officials to adopt a boycott and not do any business with Arizona or any businesses based in Arizona. If the resolution passes, Herrera will examine the law to see if the city can legally terminate any existing contracts with Arizona-based companies. La Opinion, the largest Spanish-language newspaper in the country, on Saturday called for an economic boycott. Henrik Rehbinder, editor of the editorial pages for the Los Angeles-based publication, said the boycott is intended to send a signal to Brewer and other political leaders "A law that encourages racial profiling and makes discrimination possible should not be tolerated," Rehbinder said.He said Californians also may be impacted by the law. "We have a lot of Californians who travel to Arizona to visit relatives," he said. "Will they have to carry passports?" On Facebook, there are more than 10 pages dedicated to boycotting Arizona, with two attracting thousands of supporters. They are Boycott Arizona and Boycott Arizona 2010. A Facebook poster from Chicago urged fans to write to baseball teams who do their spring training in Arizona to let them know they won't be attending Cactus League games. A woman from Boston said she and her "mixed-race" family will keep the Grand Canyon off their radar for the time being. Tourism and sports Those close to the state's tourism industry worry that it could suffer the brunt of a backlash from the new law. "I think it will be really easy for someone to pass us over on a convention decision now," said Barry Broome, president and CEO of the Greater Phoenix Economic Council, which has been trying to promote Arizona as a good place to do business. Tourism and convention officials say that, to date, they are aware of just one cancellation: by the American Immigration Lawyers Association. It faces a $92,000 cancellation penalty. Kristen Jarnagin, spokeswoman for the Arizona Hotel and Lodging Association, said it created the "Don't Boycott AZ Tourism" page not to make a statement about the immigration law itself. "We're just trying to let people know the difference in who you're really harming if you boycott Arizona." David Roderique, president and CEO of the Downtown Phoenix Partnership , said he is concerned about the possibility of boycotts. "If we see major losses in terms of conventions and other activities, it certainly could cause a very difficult economic condition for us at a time when we cannot afford to have anymore losses to this economy," he said. Decades after Arizona's waiting to adopt a Martin Luther King Jr. holiday cost it a Super Bowl, the Diamondbacks are hoping the law doesn't cost them next year's Major League Baseball All-Star Game. "I'm concerned because we worked so hard to get it," said Derrick Hall, Diamondbacks president and CEO. "We'd hate to see it go away if too much pressure is put on MLB, but the planning is well into motion, and I think it would be difficult to back off at this point for 2011." Hall said he hasn't heard anything from league officials to lead him to believe the game will be moved. Other effects Aside from possibly hurting the state's census count and tourism, economists and immigration experts say that without federal immigration reform and better guest-worker programs, the state could be hurt when the economy rebounds and it needs more workers, especially in its construction and tourism industries. Officials still don't know if the 2008 employer-sanctions law that makes it a crime to knowingly hire undocumented workers has discouraged Hispanics from coming to the state. The recession wiped out almost 300,000 jobs since December 2007. Judith Gans, manager of the Immigration Policy Program at the Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy at the University of Arizona, said studies have shown that some key sectors of the Arizona economy have relied significantly on low-skilled, non-citizen workers who often are not documented. By discouraging those workers, with both the state's 2008 employer-sanctions law and the latest anti-immigration law, the costs of labor could rise. That would hurt business owners but help citizens who are competing for those construction and hospitality jobs, Gans said. Spencer Kamps, vice president of legislative affairs for the Home Builders Association of Central Arizona, said the industry has understood for some time that it's illegal to hire undocumented workers. "It was illegal five years ago before employer sanctions passed, and it's illegal today," he said. Broome, of GPEC, said the group is mostly disappointed at the federal government's failure to take action on immigration reform and forestall a state law like this. "You can criticize the policy and the policymakers for enacting it, but no one can deny the fact that this policy has an incredible groundswell of support in the state," he said. But he also said it will overshadow the progress that Arizona has been making in attracting renewable-energy and health-care businesses. GPEC just led a delegation to Washington, D.C., to tell national officials and media the good things Arizona has been doing. "In the meantime, this (the new law) is going to define us," he said. "And this is not how we want Arizona to be defined."
El gobierno mexicano emitió el martes un alerta a sus ciudadanos que visiten, residan o estudien en Arizona, luego que el gobierno de ese estado norteamericano adoptó una nueva ley que criminaliza la inmigración sin documentos. La secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores (SRE) señaló en un comunicado que si bien los detalles de aplicación de la ley aún no están claros, ''se debe asumir que todo ciudadano mexicano podrá ser molestado y cuestionado sin mayor causa en cualquier momento''. ''Es importante actuar con prudencia y respetar el marco legal local'', señaló la SRE, antes de añadir: ''y para todos los visitantes mexicanos''. La ley, que debe entrar en vigencia a fines de julio o principios de agosto, requiere a la Policía que interrogue cualquier persona sobre su estatus inmigratorio si existen razones para sospechar que es indocumentada. Aunque las normas aún no están en vigor, ''es conveniente extremar precauciones'', dijo la secretaría. La SRE dijo que los cinco consulados de México en Arizona, situados en Phoenix, Tucson, Yuma, Nogales y Douglas, están disponibles las 24 horas del día y los siete días de la semana para brindar ayuda jurídica a ''todos los mexicanos que consideren haber sido sujeto de algún abuso por parte de las autoridades''. La alerta emite las siguientes recomendaciones: 1. En días recientes han tenido lugar manifestaciones y actos públicos de protesta en diversas ciudades por la decisión de la Gobernadora del estado de promulgar la ley. Los eventos han sido en todo momento pacíficos. Es importante actuar con prudencia y respetar el marco legal local. 2. La ley entrará en vigor 90 días después de que concluya el actual periodo de sesiones del Legislativo estatal, por lo que de momento el marco legal vigente continúa sin cambios. Sin embargo, como quedó en evidencia durante el proceso legislativo, existe un ambiente político adverso para las comunidades migrantes y para todos los visitantes mexicanos. 3. Bajo la nueva ley, los extranjeros que no porten la documentación migratoria que se les haya emitido al entrar a Estados Unidos podrán ser arrestados y remitidos a centros de detención migratoria. Portar la documentación disponible desde ahora evitará posibles confrontaciones innecesarias. Mientras no se hayan definido criterios claros de cuándo, dónde y a quién revisarán las autoridades, se debe asumir que todo ciudadano mexicano podrá ser molestado y cuestionado sin mayor causa en cualquier momento. 4. La nueva ley también hará ilegal contratar o ser contratado desde un vehículo detenido en la vía pública, sin importar la condición migratoria de las personas involucradas. Si bien estas normas tampoco están aún en vigor, es conveniente extremar precauciones. 5. Los nacionales mexicanos que se encuentran en Estados Unidos, independientemente de su condición migratoria, cuentan con derechos humanos inalienables, así como con mecanismos de protección bajo el derecho internacional, las leyes federales estadounidenses y el propio derecho estatal de Arizona. Los cinco consulados mexicanos en Arizona (Phoenix, Tucson, Yuma, Nogales, Douglas) tienen entre sus funciones brindar asesoría jurídica a todos los mexicanos que consideren haber sido sujeto de algún abuso por parte de las autoridades. Organizaciones no gubernamentales también han anunciado su intención de apoyar a quienes lo necesiten. 6. Los mexicanos en Arizona que requieran apoyo consular cuentan con el número telefónico de protección sin costo, disponible las 24 horas del día los 7 días de la semana, en el teléfono 1-877-63266785 (1-877-63CONSUL). La red consular en Arizona cuenta con servicio de atención telefónica permanente, las 24 horas del día y los 7 días de la semana. 7. Consulados de México en Arizona: Consulado General de México en Phoenix 1990 West Camelback Road Suite 110, Phoenix Arizona. 85015 E.U.A. Atención al Público: 08:00 a 17:00 horas (602) 242-7398 conphoenix@sre.gob.mx Consulado de México en Tucson 553 South Stone Avenue, Tucson, Arizona., 85701, EE.UU. Atención al Público de 8:00a 17:00 horas (520) 882-5595 contucmx@sre.gob.mx Consulado General de México en Nogales 135 W. Cardwell St., Nogales, Arizona, 85621 E.U.A. Atención al Público de 8:00 a 17:00 horas (520) 287-2521,287-3381 informacion@consulmexnogales.com Consulado de México en Douglas 1201"F" Avenue, Douglas, Az., 85607 E.U.A. Atención al Público de 08:00 a 17:00 horas (520) 364-3107 douglas@sre.gob.mx Consulado de México en Yuma 298 S. Main Street, Yuma, Az., 85364 EE.UU. Atención al Público de : 08:00-17:00 horas (928) 343-0066 conyuma@sre.gob.mx
