After a heated city council session in which discriminatory practices of WWII were invoked, Los Angeles has become the biggest of several cities to boycott Arizona over its controversial new immigration law. L.A. is banning most official travel to Arizona, cancelling contracts, and considering how much of its $58 million current business with Arizona can be dissolved. Given that Arizona's bill is still broadly supported in national polls, will this boycott change anything? (Watch a local report about L.A.'s vote to boycott Arizona)
"Money talks": Arizona needs this "powerful yet civilized" message that it "has gone too far," combined with the sting it's already feeling from other municipal boycotts, says the Los Angeles Daily News in an editorial. Boycotts helped bring down the South's Jim Crow laws. This may just work.
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