"We've got the support of hundreds of people here in El Paso, and with the city and the county of El Paso considering resolutions to boycott Arizona, we're confident that number is going to rise," Boycott Arizona leader Jaime Abeytia told the news outlet.
The group has begun its boycott against businesses [image-nocss] such as Peter Piper Pizza, Circle K and Cold Stone Creamery.
He added, "We want to bring...economic pressure upon these businesses, so that they'll turn around and put political pressure on the state of Arizona to make an effective change on that legislation."
For Abeytia and Boycott Arizona, stopping the boycott is not an option any time soon, said the report. It is expanding its list of businesses to include those companies that contributed heavily to the Arizona Republican Partycompanies such as J.P. Morgan Chase and Clear Channel Communications.
The group is planning two protests this week, to include the El Paso Republican Party headquarters and Clear Channel Communications building, the report said.
A website called "Arizona Boycott Against AZ SB 1070" lists Circle K on its list of "Companies Incorporated in Arizona."
It says, "This site contains a growing list of companies based out of the state of Arizona. If we boycott these companies, we will show Arizona that America is against the passage of this bill. To get off our list, show on your web site that your company is against Arizona SB 1070."
Representatives of Circle K did not respond to CSP Daily News' request for comment by press time.
Laval, Quebec-based Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc. currently operates a network of 5,883 c-stores, 4,142 of which include motor fuel dispensing, located in 11 large geographic markets, including eight in the United States under the Circle K banner covering 43 states and the District of Columbia, and three in Canada under the Mac's banner covering all 10 provinces.
Before Circle K was acquired by Couche-Tard in 2003 from ConocoPhillips, the company was headquartered in Tempe, Ariz., now home to the Arizona regional office.
Arizona's new law, which was signed Friday and would take effect in July, would require immigrants to carry documents verifying their immigration status. It would also require police officers to question a person about his or her immigration status if there is "reasonable suspicion" that person may be illegally in the country.
A CSP Daily News Poll earlier this week asked: "Arizona's new immigration law requires police to determine whether people are in the country legally and allows them to detain suspected illegal immigrants. Would you support a similar bill in your home state?"
Of the approximately 225 responses, nearly 70% said, "Yes, Arizona is on target." About 19% said, "No, Arizona's law goes too far." (About 11% said, "Maybe, depending on the details.)
Among those calling for a boycott of the state and its business are U.S. Representative Joe Baca (D-Calif.), lawmakers in Los Angeles and San Francisco, and La Opinion, the nation's biggest Spanish-language newspaper, added CBS News.
And some opponents of the immigration law are calling for a boycott of Arizona Iced Tea, reported The New York Daily News.
Online, misguided tea fans vowed to switch to Lipton or Snapple, said the report.
"Dear Arizona: If you don't change your immigration policy, I will have to stop drinking your enjoyable brand of iced tea," read one Twitter post cited by the newspaper.
"It is the drink of fascists," said another.
The problem: Arizona Iced Tea is based and brewed in New York. It was founded in 1992 in Brooklyn by former New York City beer distributors; the company said the founders borrowed "the motif from their south-western inspired house in Queens. For the last 16 years our headquarters have remained on Long Island where we continue to sell and distribute AriZona Iced Teas and beverages," the company said in a statement obtained by CBS News put out to correct what it called "misinformation" about its origins.
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