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Mexico City, April 18, 2006 (CNA) - Bishop Renato Ascencio of Juarez, Mexico, announced during Holy Week he would support a commercial boycott planned by immigrants in the U.S. for May 1 in order to demand “integral and just” immigration reform.

Bishop Ascencio, who is also president of the Committee on Human Mobility of the Bishops’ Conference of Mexico, said the boycott was being undertaken by all Hispanics and calls for refraining from the purchase of any U.S. goods.

He said he himself would “set the example” and that on May 1 he would not cross the border into the United States to make purchases.

“We Mexicans who live on this side should express our solidarity with immigrants, just as the Guatemalans, Nicaraguans and others from Central America are doing,” he added.,

Bishop Ascencio said the faithful could join in the boycott by not entering El Paso on May 1 and by refusing to buy U.S. products in Juarez.

As one of the fiercest supporters of the undocumented who travel to, or live in the United States, Bishop Ascencio organized an inter-religious day of prayer last January and expressed his rejection of the “anti-immigrant” law passed in December by the U.S. House of Representatives.

The pending legislation, yet to be passed by the Senate, authorizes the building of a wall on the U.S./Mexican border and seeks to make undocumented immigrants and all those who provide them with assistance, felons. End Paste

I found this very interesting and I hope that the U.S. really thinks about what is the right thing to do here.

Well...the right thing to do is to STOP any additional "illegal" immigrants from coming into the country. Or if they come, deport them.

And as far as the "illegals" already here, they need to slowly be deported also. Every single one of them, regardless of what country they are from (as this is not only a Hispanic issue).

As far as some Catholic Bishop, who really cares what he says or thinks.

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As far as some Catholic Bishop, who really cares what he says or thinks.

I think this shows the level of unity that we are facing.

the guy is a bit over the top,isnt he ?

its a bit rich to call for, or support such a boycott.He of all people should seek active involvement and dialogue to solve the problem for both sides.

I think this is plain stupid and short sighted.

I will go to the airport early this evening, so I get time to smoke a Muralla while waiting after shopping there. zurich duty free is great, and smoke friendly. just to throw in something cigar related

I wonder if he is also for boycotting all the American money that is sent to Mexico from the Mexican workers here.

I think it would be a grave error for the U.S. not to recognize this level of unity. Is it really us or them? Maybe there can be a win win outcome.

I live near where all this hype is happening. For years the Catholic church has been having cermonies at the border where they have mass together to "transcend" the borders. However some of the local people are using attention getting tactics that backfire here. For example, the bishop also called for all Mexicans that visit family or work here in the US to boycot the local markets (especially downtown El Paso). This is stupid because it is literally shooting themselves in the foot. I notice a lot of the movement is doing what they think will get attention (like walking with mexican flags, high school students walking out of class) when in reality it discredits the movement.

A local radio station had one of thier DJs walk into Mexico and wave the American flag and shout out "Viva USA - no to the bishop." He stated that people were shouting at him and that is considered a federal offense to protest without Mexicko's approval.

I have no problem with legal imagration. Most of these imagrants come here to make a better life for themself and their family. I do have a problem with illegal imagration. It is against the law and for National Security reasons we need to know who enters our country.

It was funny because last fall some minutemen set themselves up to monitor the US border with Canada.

Some anti-border watch protesters held a cross border soccer game which stopped when a Vermont state policemen took away their ball.cross border soccer game

There was an interview with an upstate NY grandmother who regularly spends her evenings looking across a drainage ditch that separates a Quebec cow farm from a NY cow farm.
She is quoted as saying "Canadians let anybody into Canada"

QM,

If I were a terrorist and had a man pack nuke or some other weapon of mass destruction I would not waist my time with the Mexican border I would enter Canada then cross the border into the US. The US Canadian border is much longer and far less secure and closer to the larger cities.

Nothing against Canadians but for National Security reasons I would secure the border between the US and Mexico and the border between the US and Canada.

I too am for securing the Canadian-American border.

However you guys have it cut out for you.
It may be just a matter of time before a small Hiroshima type device explodes in one of your harbours. These things are a piece of cake to make if you have the fissile material.

A British Officer once said regarding the IRA, "We have to be lucky every time the IRA only has to be lucky once".

Damn QM it may be true but it is hard to hear.