Mr. Rubin says that a boycott of American goods and services by Mexicans is misguided because ’the US business community has been lobbying for a comprehensive immigration bill’.
I find this very hard to believe since the US business lobby is one of the most powerful in all of Congress and without their support NAFTA, a total failure as far as the common working Latin American is concerned, would never have happened. His misgivings seem to parallel those of the American business community’s concerns over 35 years ago when the migrant worker movement in the western US coalesced and staged a highly effective boycott of agricultural products.
Mr. Rubin knows that this upcoming boycott will be successful in sending out a message to the public, and it is far from being ’misguided’. So many of our business leaders sing the same song and dance the same tune as our ’elected’ officials, that is they obfuscate the facts, distort the truth and ply the media with misinformation about the real causes of the immigration problem. We should be just as wary with their pronouncements as we should be wary of the opinions of any spokesman who lives off the gravy train of the American Establishment.
Mr. Rubin says that a boycott of American goods and services by Mexicans is misguided because ’the US business community has been lobbying for a comprehensive immigration bill’.
I find this very hard to believe since the US business lobby is one of the most powerful in all of Congress and without their support NAFTA, a total failure as far as the common working Latin American is concerned, would never have happened. His misgivings seem to parallel those of the American business community’s concerns over 35 years ago when the migrant worker movement in the western US coalesced and staged a highly effective boycott of agricultural products.
Mr. Rubin knows that this upcoming boycott will be successful in sending out a message to the public, and it is far from being ’misguided’. So many of our business leaders sing the same song and dance the same tune as our ’elected’ officials, that is they obfuscate the facts, distort the truth and ply the media with misinformation about the real causes of the immigration problem. We should be just as wary with their pronouncements as we should be wary of the opinions of any spokesman who lives off the gravy train of the American Establishment.