Arizona Republic: Business leaders worry Arizona’s immigration bill may keep tourists, employers away (April 22, 2010)
Reference Frame: “Tourism and economic-development officials worry about potential financial fallout from Arizona’s landmark immigration bill, with several drawing parallels to the costly business backlash after the state’s rescission of a paid holiday honoring Martin Luther King Jr. more than 20 years ago. One Arizona congressman called for a national convention boycott of the state unless Gov. Jan Brewer vetoes the bill, the strongest reaction to date on an issue many businesses acknowledge they are just beginning to study.”
Explanatory Frame: “The wide-ranging illegal-immigration measure, approved by the state Senate on Monday and awaiting a decision by Brewer by Saturday, makes it a state crime to be in the country illegally and would require police and other law-enforcement officers to check the immigration status of people they reasonably suspect are in the country illegally.”
Arizona Daily Star: Pueblo Politics: Giffords says no to boycott (April 22, 2010)
Reference Frame: “U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords is distancing herself from her Southern Arizona counterpart’s call for an economic boycott of the state if a controversial immigration measure becomes law. Her repudiation of U.S. Rep. Raul Grijalva’s call for conventions to steer clear of Arizona if the measure becomes law came as Congressional District 8 Republican hopefuls Jonathan Paton and Jesse Kelly called on Giffords to reject his comments.”
Explanatory Frame: None
Arizona Republic (12 News): Nationwide Hispanic boycott looms (April 23, 2010)
Reference Frame: “A former Arizona legislator says national Hispanic groups are organizing a nationwide boycott of businesses in the state once SB1070 becomes law. Former Democratic state Rep. Steve Gallardo says on this weekend’s “Sunday Square-Off” that businesses will be pressured to take a stand on the new crackdown on illegal immigration if they expect to keep the business of Hispanic consumers.”
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Arizona Republic: Truckers plan boycott over Arizona immigration law (April 23, 2010)
Reference Frame: “WASHINGTON – Two or three times a week, truck driver Jesus Serrano hauls loads of Mexican-grown produce from warehouses in Nogales, Ariz., which is just across the U.S.-Mexico border, to distribution centers in Los Angeles. Serrano plans to stop making the trip now that Arizona Republican Gov. Jan Brewer has signed a stringent anti-illegal immigration bill into law, however, and he has recruited other truckers to join him.”
Explanatory Frame: “The law will require police to check the immigration status of anyone they have “reasonable suspicion” to think might be in the country illegally.”
Arizona Republic: Arizona immigration bill: Lawyers group to boycott Arizona (April 23, 2010)
Reference Frame: “The American Immigration Lawyers Association has vowed to boycott the state of Arizona, canceling their fall national convention at the Scottsdale Marriott. The boycott comes hours after Gov. Jan Brewer signed Senate Bill 1070 into law.”
Explanatory Frame: “Goldman said AILA views the bill, which would allow officers to request citizenship identification from any person at any time, as unconstitutional.”
Arizona Republic: Grijalva offices to close early due to threats (April 23, 2010)
Reference Frame: “Telephone threats to one of Rep. Raúl Grijalva’s district offices have prompted the Arizona Democrat to close his Tucson and Yuma offices at noon Friday. “The Tucson office got two calls from the same person threatening to come in there and start shooting everybody,” Grijalva spokesman Adam Sarvana said. “The guy then said he’d go down to the border and start shooting Mexicans if he saw them coming across. There are police outside the Tucson office right now, just as a precaution”
Explanatory Frame: “Grijalva this week urged a convention and conference boycott of Arizona if Gov. Jan Brewer signs Senate Bill 1070, a strict immigration-enforcement measure passed Monday by the Arizona Legislature.”
Arizona Daily Star (Editorial): Grijalva raises ire, receives threats (April 24, 2010)
Reference Frame: “Rep. Raúl Grijalva had a bad idea and clung to it: urging conventions and businesses to boycott Arizona in order to make clear how destructive a proposed immigration bill would be. But the response – so many death threats that Grijalva felt compelled to close his Tucson and Yuma offices on Friday – is symptomatic of how polarized and hyperbolic our civic “discussion” has become.”
Explanatory Frame: “State Sen. Russell Pearce, the Mesa Republican who authored the immigration bill that allows local police to check immigration status, appeared on MSNBC and described those who opposed the bill as “the anarchists.”
Arizona Republic: McCain, Hayworth agree: Grijalva boycott is a bad idea (April 24, 2010)
Reference Frame: “John McCain and J.D. Hayworth, the battling Republicans in Arizona’s Senate primary race, found a point of agreement Friday. Both condemned the call by Rep. Raúl Grijalva, D-Ariz., for a convention business boycott of Arizona as a protest to the state’s tough new immigration-enforcement law.
“Arizona’s economy is hurting as never before,” McCain said at a news conference in downtown Phoenix. “It’s incomprehensible that someone would call for a boycott that would further hurt Arizona’s economy.”
Explanatory Frame: None
Arizona Daily Star & Arizona Republic (AP): San Francisco calls for boycott of Ariz. over immigration law (April 26, 2010)
Reference Frame: “SAN FRANCISCO — San Francisco city officials called Monday for a boycott of Arizona and businesses based there to protest that state’s strict new immigration law. City Attorney Dennis Herrera compared San Francisco’s opposition to the measure to its stance against apartheid in South Africa, the oppression of Catholics in Northern Ireland, and discrimination against the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community.”
Explanatory Frame: “Arizona’s new legislation, signed into law Friday, makes being in the country illegally a crime punishable by six months in jail and a $2,500 fine.”
Arizona Daily Star: Brewer: Immigration law won’t hurt Ariz. economy (April 26, 2010)
Reference Frame: “Appearing Monday at an Arizona Town Hall in Tucson, Gov. Jan Brewer dismissed the threat of an economic boycott over the new state immigration law she signed Friday. “I don’t believe it’s going to have the kind of economic impact that some people think it might,” Brewer said, in answer to a question from the audience after she gave a luncheon speech at the DoubleTree Hotel.”
Explanatory Frame: “Brewer said outrage over the ability of police to ask people for citizenship documentation will fade, just the way she said the uproar faded when she was secretary of state and rode herd over a requirement that voters show ID at the polls.”
Nogales International: Sonoran protesters call for boycott over new Arizona law (April 27, 2010)
Reference Frame: “Protests over Arizona’s tough new immigration law spread south of the border on Monday as a small group of demonstrators gathered outside the U.S. Consulate in Nogales, Sonora to call for Mexicans to boycott Arizona over the measure. Carrying signs reading “Boycott the state of Arizona,” and “We are all citizens of the world,” the protesters collected signatures for a letter addressed to U.S. President Barack Obama that they planned to deliver to consular officials.”
Explanatory Frame: “The legislation, which Gov. Jan Brewer signed into law on Friday, makes illegal immigration a state crime and requires police to ask people for their immigration documents if they suspect they are in the country illegally.”
Arizona Republic: Canadian band Stars boycott Arizona over immigration law (April 27, 2010)
Reference Frame: “Canadian indie-pop sensations Stars have announced that they don’t plan on playing Arizona until the state’s new immigration law, which gives police the power to detain any person they suspect may be here illegally, is repealed. This being 2010, the announcement was tweeted in 140 characters or less. “We love AZ,” the tweet read. “But until its racist new immigration law is repealed, Stars (and many others) will boycott this state.”
Explanatory Frame: “Canadian indie-pop sensations Stars have announced that they don’t plan on playing Arizona until the state’s new immigration law, which gives police the power to detain any person they suspect may be here illegally, is repealed.”
Arizona Daily Star: Who is boycotting Arizona? (April 27, 2010)
Reference Frame: “Cities/counties that have approved boycotts of Arizona:”
Explanatory Frame: None
Arizona Republic: Calls to boycott Arizona multiply on social media (April 27, 2010)
Reference Frame: “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.”
Explanatory Frame: “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.”
Arizona Daily Star: LA council, other Calif. officials weigh action vs. AZ (April 28, 2010)
Reference Frame: “PHOENIX – Pressure continued to mount Tuesday against Arizona’s tough new immigration law, with political leaders in California calling for an economic boycott. Calls for boycotts spread throughout California this week after the bill was signed by Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer on Friday. The law is scheduled to take effect 90 days after the legislative session ends.”
Explanatory Frame: None
Arizona Republic: Arizona’s immigration law has ripple effect (April 28, 2010)
Reference Frame: “WASHINGTON – Arizona’s tough new immigration law has spawned calls for boycotts, a travel warning from Mexico to its citizens and a possible federal lawsuit, but a key Republican senator said Tuesday that it is not likely to result in comprehensive immigration reform this year.”
Explanatory Frame: “Dennis Burke, U.S. attorney for Arizona, said his office is working closely with the Justice Department to review the immigration law, which 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.”
Arizona Daily Star & Arizona Republic (AP): Company, lawmaker: Don’t boycott NY’s ‘AriZona’ tea (April 28, 2010)
Reference Frame: “GARDEN CITY, N.Y. – A New York-based beverage company finds itself in the middle of the controversy over a new immigration law, simply because it shares its name with the state where the law was enacted. An initiative apparently started on the Internet asks people to boycott the AriZona Beverage Co. because of claims the new immigration law in that state will unfairly target Hispanics.”
Explanatory Frame: None
Arizona Republic (AP): Mayor in Minnesota boycotts Arizona over new law (April 28, 2010)
Reference Frame: “ST. PAUL, Minn. – The mayor of Minnesota’s capital is boycotting Arizona because of the state’s stringent new immigration law. St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman is ordering city departments not to travel to conferences in Arizona. And the Democrat says he’ll encourage both the Democratic and Republican parties not to pick Phoenix for their national conventions in 2012.”
Explanatory Frame: None
Arizona Daily Star (AP): Immigration activists boycott Diamondbacks-Cubs game (April 29, 2010)
Reference Frame: “CHICAGO – Immigrant rights activists chanting “Boycott Arizona” have gathered outside Wrigley Field in Chicago as the Cubs open a four-game series against the Diamondbacks. Protesters are upset over Arizona’s tough new immigration law that makes it a crime to be in the United States illegally and lets police question anyone they suspect of being an illegal immigrant. The law is slated to take effect this summer.”
Explanatory Frame: “Protesters are upset over Arizona’s tough new immigration law that makes it a crime to be in the United States illegally and lets police question anyone they suspect of being an illegal immigrant.”
Arizona Republic: Veteran calls to say he plans anti-boycott visit to Arizona (April 30, 2010)
Reference Frame: “Ahwatukee Foothills Chamber of Commerce executive director Terri Kimble was surprised – and then touched – by a heartfelt phone call from an out-of-state veteran on Thursday. The caller, who identified himself as Rich Meyers from Westport, Wash., told Kimble he intends to change his vacation plans this year and visit Arizona because so many others have called for a boycott of the state over the state’s controversial immigration-enforcement law.”
Explanatory Frame: None
Arizona Republic: Competing efforts are under way to boycott and support Arizona’s economy (April 30, 2010)
Reference Frame: “Arizona’s approval of a tough new immigration bill is putting the state in the middle of an economics debate, with web-based protestors calling for a boycott of Arizona business interests and supporters vowing to channel some of their dollars to businesses in the Grand Canyon State.”
Explanatory Frame: None
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