?I don?t believe that anyone, including myself, foresaw the national and international reaction? to April?s bill, said Glenn Hamer, chief executive of the Arizona Chamber of Commerce and Industry, who said estimates of lost tourism business ranged from $15 million to $150 million. ?Now we have that experience under our belts. We know these measures can cause economic damage; it?s just a matter of degree.?
Those businesses helped scuttle five additional anti-immigrant laws. This letter (PDF) laid out the hardships they've faced:
Last year, boycotts were called against our state?s business community, adversely impacting our already-struggling economy and costing us jobs. Arizona-based businesses saw contracts cancelled or were turned away from bidding. Sales outside of the state declined. Even a business which merely had ?Arizona? in its name felt the effects of the boycotts, compelling them to launch an educational campaign about their company?s roots in Brooklyn. It is an undeniable fact that each of our companies and our employees were impacted by the boycotts and the coincident negative image.
Yet asked to justify his law, the Republican State Senate President claimed it was a huge success.
State Senator Russell Pearce claimed this week he has proof that the controversial illegal immigration legislation is doing its job in Arizona.Pearce, who authored SB 1070, points to a rise in U-Haul rentals as evidence that Arizona's tough immigration law is forcing illegal immigrants to leave the state. But does Pearce's claim hold true?
... Now that SB 1070 is approaching its one year anniversary, Senator Pearce has claimed that illegal immigrants are leaving Arizona "in caravans" and that U-Haul is busier than ever with one-way trips leaving the state.
Ahh, the U-Haul theory of out-migration. Because people moving into the state don't use U-Hauls. Nor do people moving across town. Or white people. Or do they? Someone decided to ask U-Haul.
9 On Your Side called U-Haul to check on Pearce's claim. However, the truck rental company confirmed to KGUN9 News, since SB 1070 became law, it's helped 0.5% more people move into than out of Arizona in 2010. These same numbers spiked to double digits, 13.2% to be exact, during the first three months of 2011. Therefore, according to U-Haul, its numbers prove Pearce's claim may not be entirely accurate after all.
"Not entirely accurate" is the polite media way to say "Russell Pearce is full of shit."
He must've gotten his "facts" from Fox News. Or Glenn Beck. Or another one of those bizarro-world corners of the media world where conservatives invent their own realities.
Source: http://feeds.dailykos.com/~r/dailykos/index/~3/PmES8zBj1SU/-SB1070-hasnt-been-kind-to-Arizona
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