Don’t fly U.S. Airways, don’t watch the Arizona Diamondbacks – and don’t go to the Grand Canyon. That’s the message from City Council members who introduced a resolution Wednesday urging New Yorkers to boycott Arizona and its businesses as punishment for its new law targeting illegal immigrants.
“We have concerns about how the boycott can hurt the working-class people, but we believe that … it is necessary,” said Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez of Washington Heights, who compared it to 1980s anti-apartheid boycotts against South Africa.
Controller John Liu is studying how New York could sever its contracts and investments with Arizona-based companies. He and Public Advocate Bill de Blasio support it. Council Speaker Christine Quinn said she is open to it.
A similar boycott passed the Los Angeles City Council yesterday – and is backed by that city’s mayor.
Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver called on Major League Baseball to move next year’s All-Star game out of Phoenix.
Meanwhile, Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer stirred new outrage by signing a bill banning ethnic studies in schools.
{NY Daily News/Noam Amdurski-Matzav.com Newscenter}
Maybe we should boycott the federal government.
They also have an immigration law on the books.
This is insane. How can you identify the wrongdoers without racial profiling? So what if we all have to carry a few papers?
Why is Sheldon Silver getting involve in the wrong side of this issue?
Ridiculous!
Clueless about the 4th amendment just a bit?
So essentially they want to punish Arizona for making it a law to keep the Federal Law? That makes no sense!
#3 tzoorba – If you check his record you’ll see that Sheldon Silver is always on the wrong side of the issue.
Why punish the innocent people of Arizona? That’s not fair.