West Burlington IA News-Sports-Opinion

Photo by Sherry Kaestner

Des Moines County Fair Queen is Natalie DeBerg, daughter of Kyle and Nola DeBerg, from Burlington.

Falcon,

We can only hope that the Mexican Government will follow through with this action. This could be the first step to reverse the flow of illegal immigrants and companies crossing the border. This maybe the end of NAFTA and the new highway that is to be built(already done) that runs from the Mexico to Canada. Sounds good, but who's pocket is it benefiting?
http://www.nascocorridor.com/membersList.asp?page=1&od=&search=

El Diario (Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua) 7/27/10
Large Mexican union calls for boycott of U.S. products and breaking of diplomatic relations

Just prior to Arizona Law SB1070 going into effect, Mexico’s National Confederation of Social, Field Workers and Communal Farms Organizations announced a boycott of U.S. origin products. At a press conference, Sergio de Alba Avila, the organization’s president, stated that he will demand the Mexican government to break diplomatic relations with the United States if that anti-immigrant law goes into effect.

After defining his confederation as a center-left group, he added that its members will distribute lists in self service and department stores identifying U.S. products so that customers will not buy them. He also stated that they intend to mount a cybernetic protest by having internet users flood the state of Arizona’s web pages with messages against the law in question. They will also be sending electronic messages to the governor of the state of Arizona, as well as congressmen, senators and to the U.S. president.

He added that they will ask the Mexican Chancellor (Sec. of State,) Patricia Espinosa, to harden the Mexican government’s policy against the referenced law and, if necessary, to break relations with the United States if that law is applied against fellow nationals. Further, that they might join protest actions being called for by other groups of migrants, such as the blockage of international crossing points, among others.

-Alfredo the Brain