By Diego Urdaneta
Agence France-Presse
Civil rights and labor groups on Thursday urged Americans not to travel to Arizona, as they launched a
national boycott in response to the state's divisive new
anti-illegal immigration law.
The boycott was called by the National Council of La Raza, the largest US-based Hispanic civil rights group, which also urged President Barack Obama to redouble his efforts to see that
immigration reform becomes law.
"We are calling for a boycott because this law will blow open the door to increased racial profiling, wrongful arrests, and other discrimination," said Janet Murguia, the president of the group, who criticized the Arizona law as "not American."
"There is a right way and a wrong way" to achieve an overhaul of US immigration policy, she added.
"The right way is for Congress to fulfill its constitutional responsibility to properly regulate immigration," she said, urging Americans not to travel to the southwestern US state.
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