WASHINGTON — The nation’s largest Latino civil-rights group announced Thursday that it has organized a boycott of Arizona in the wake of the state’s new law targeting illegal immigrants.
The National Council of La Raza, along with 19 other labor and civil-rights groups, will pull money and meetings out of the state and are asking all companies and organizations to move major events and conferences planned there to other venues. Specifically, La Raza wants Major League Baseball to renege on its promise to hold the 2011 All-Star Game in Phoenix.
Meanwhile, a prominent Senate Democrat, New York Sen. Chuck Schumer, is asking Republican Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer to put off the new law for a year, until Congress can try to pass broad new federal immigration policies.
