A day without a Mexican
by Hugh Holub on May. 14, 2010, under border issues, politics, SB 1070As part of efforts to protest Arizona’s new immigration law (SB 1070) a boycott of Arizona was organized for May 14th and 15th called “A Day Without a Mexican”. Mexicans were urged not to cross the border to shop in the US.
Not coincidentally May 14th was chosen for the protest, because that was the day all the Mexicans vanished from California in the movie “A Day Without a Mexican”.
No one is exactly sure who organized the “Day Without A Mexican” protest, but word spread around Nogales, Sonora like a viral epidemic, being picked up by the major Mexican radio news talk shows like Radio Xeny, urging Sonorans to not cross to shop. It apparently worked.
Morley Avenue which is a main shopping area for walk-over shoppers from Mexico was virtually deserted early Friday afternoon. Several stores had already closed. Most of the epople on the street were waiting for a 4 PM protest over SB 1070. At one point there were more media folks than Mexicans.
No one walking down the sidewalk in Nogales, Arizona
Empty store in Nogales, Arizona
Shop keepers were worried that Saturday could be worse.
One store clerk commented ” If they want to boycott, then boycott those crazies up in Phoenix.”
Even the Nogales Wal Mart appeared to be impacted by the boycott. Normally over 50% of the cars in their parking lot have Sonoran plates. Friday afternoon the count was less than 10%.
The normal lines of people waiting to walk across the border or drive across were gone. On a usual day it can take an hour to walk across from Mexico, and up to 2 hours to drive across through the DeConcini Port of Entry.
[Note: I tried to take a picture through the port to show the empty lanes, and got jumped by several Customs and Border Protection (CPB) agents. Apparently one cannot take a picture of the port of entry.]
May 14th, 2010 on 9:16 pm
First they came…
“THEY CAME FIRST for the Communists,
and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist.
THEN THEY CAME for the Jews,
and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew.
THEN THEY CAME for the trade unionists,
and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist.
THEN THEY CAME for me
and by that time no one was left to speak up.”
Martin Niemöller
http://bussworld.netii.net/1_19_First-they-came-.html
May 14th, 2010 on 9:57 pm
And make no mistake…they are coming.
May 15th, 2010 on 12:43 am
Did Ray Davies have you in mind, Lefty?
“Silly boy ya’ self-destroyer.
Paranoia, THE destroyer…”
May 15th, 2010 on 6:30 am
Actually, the song is not anout a person, but about a psychological disorder. If anyone could be characterized as paranoid, it would have to be the right wing. They are the ones who believe in the wild and paranoid conspiracy theories.
May 15th, 2010 on 4:36 pm
And the Lefties are not paranoid about Palin, Tea Party?? LOL at leftfield the empty suit
May 15th, 2010 on 12:53 am
Leftfield:
Tell me just “who” is coming. The KGB, GRU? The Red Chinese police, North Korean Secret Police?
I get tred of hearing that long droning quote about “who” is coming. We have an invasion of 20 million uninvited guests. Maybe, just maybe we have enough of them by now.
May 15th, 2010 on 6:31 am
Tell me just “who” is coming.
Neofascists like yourself, that’s who is coming.
May 15th, 2010 on 8:38 am
After all the undocumented workers are deported, would Russell Pearce now want to deport all the Democrats in the state?
May 15th, 2010 on 10:36 am
Can we do that? Maybe not all Dems, but libs for sure!
May 16th, 2010 on 7:02 am
Pearce would deport all the non-Mormons. Would that include you?
May 25th, 2010 on 10:05 am
what the hell is this maybe u r american but what about 4 or 5 generations behind u, where are they from Europe , u should deport yourself , your don;t look a native American , so then you born in this country but your blood it’s not american and im not talking about north america i just say AMERICA ….
May 15th, 2010 on 9:01 am
I was their in Phoenix when it was booming in the early eighties. I had a construction company and I hired mostly citizens, I noticed that the white guys were hiring all of these illegal as they provided cheap and good labor. Times were good and people were making lots of money, this issue was never brought up and everything was good. Now we have the fallout of this great boom and a lot of these people planted roots there, now they are no longer wanted. This new law is so flawed it is ridiculous. Ask any person that knows about detaining a massive group of people and they will tell that Arizona can not afford to enforce this law. So Arizona broke it! now fix it and a immigration reform is the only solution.
May 15th, 2010 on 10:22 am
Hugh, if you were in the port, CBP possibly could stop you from taking pictures. If you were in the public right of way outside the port, meaning on the street/sidewalk, and the port was in plain view of the public, then no one can stop you from taking pictures, especially not federal agents. Moreover, they had no right to force you to delete any photos. I’ll look into this and get back to you.
May 15th, 2010 on 10:59 am
Leftfield:
“Neofascists like me”…interesting! Yet you have Karl Marx on the photo next to your name. And you spout manure supporting the communists. Grow up. People like you must have forgot that communism in on the ash heap of history.
And no I dont support this INVASION of 20 million illegal aliens.
May 15th, 2010 on 11:27 am
“Neofascists like me”…interesting! Yet you have Karl Marx on the photo next to your name.
You do know that there is a big difference between fascists and commies, don’t you? As to the future of our respective ideologies, I would say that fascism is the one “on the ash heap of history”. Anyway, I will pass your comments on to the countries of Venezuela, Bolivia, Nicaragua, Cuba and Ecuador. I’m sure your comments will receive all the attention they deserve.
May 15th, 2010 on 11:32 am
There are more communists in Tucson and San Francisco and Berkley than in Moscow and Hanoi. Wow, you sure named some great countries there. Guess they didnt get the memo that Communism or whatever they call it is long dead.
How does it feel to be a supporter of such great ideas. Have a good day Karl.
May 15th, 2010 on 11:42 am
Thanks, Adolph. The people of those “great countries” thank you for being so magnanimous as to allow them to choose their own form of government.
May 17th, 2010 on 12:15 am
a toss up as to who killed more innocents …….. nazis or communists
May 17th, 2010 on 6:56 am
Hey Einstein: Hitler und der Nazis gained power in January of 1933 and were kaput by Early May, 1945. A little over 12 years. The Wanesee Protocol, the early 1942 conference held in Berlin, laid out the official framework and rules for the upcoming holocaust. That only gave them a little over 3 years to carry it out.
The Commies started the Russian Revolution in 1917, and the bloodbath began and didn’t stop until the USSR disolved on Christmas day, 1991. And that was only the Soviet Communists.
You figure it out. It shouldn’t be that tough.
Yer pal, Ferrari Bubba
May 17th, 2010 on 7:17 am
Capitalism saw its beginnings in the transition from feudalism, before Uncle Karl was even a gleam in his daddy’s eye. By your logic that any crime committed by Joe Stalin is attributed to Uncle Karl and communism in general, then you will have to attribute all the deaths associated with every non-communist regime to capitalism/imperialism. This would include both World Wars and all the deaths associated with colonialism (imperialism), slavery, starvation, etc. So, start counting and let me know when you get tired.
May 15th, 2010 on 12:14 pm
How about picking some great countries. Like advanced ones with good human rights records and modern economies, ones that really mean something. Cuba, now thats a good choice, they cant wait to get out of there.
You sir, live in the past. That world fell apart with the fall of the Berlin Wall.
You may be able to impress tha locals here. You know the dope smoking, pony tailed, Birkenstock, City Council supporter, left wing types. But not all of us are impressed with your so called knowledge of world history. Yours has a lot of holes in it.
Have a great day
May 17th, 2010 on 12:17 am
i was in nogales friday. great day of peace and quite. i enjoyed the lack of crowds immensely.
unfortunately it will return because anyone can stay home a day or two. they like their american purchase too much.
May 19th, 2010 on 6:59 am
I was in Sonora, Mexico and it sure was nice not to have those long lines to come back into the USA. Normally we have to wait 45 minutes or even and hour and a half. There we no lines we didn’t have to wait. This tells us a lot. Who do you think the boycotts are hurting? The service jobs that are being affected, who do you think hold those jobs? They are jobs that are done by mostly Hispanics. They are hurting the little guys. The Hispanic coalition really don’t care about the hispanics that are going to be laid off because of all these boycotts. The coalition people will still have a job no matter what. Immigration needs to be done right. If we were to go to Mexico illegally, what do you think would happen to us? Ignorance really is what is going on here. Think about what is really going on. It is not just the Anglos that agree with SB1070.
May 19th, 2010 on 8:48 pm
In the late 1950′s – early 1960′s Earl K. Long was govoner of Louisiana at the beginning of the Civil Rights civil disobediences. Detroit, Mich. was the job mecca of the nation at that time. Gov. Long offered to buy anyone who wanted to move to Michigan a one-way bus ticket.
Perhaps Arizona should consider that for anyone wanting to leave your “ill-advised state”, purchasing them a one-way ticket to Los Angeles.
June 6th, 2010 on 10:40 pm
Hahaha, the Day without a Mexican boycott is a joke. The people over at http://www.Stormfront.org are laughing their heads off about it even now.