Salvador Reza was only 9 years old when he immigrated to the United States from Chihuahua, Mexico.”At my first school recess, they swatted me with a paddle three times for speaking Spanish,” Reza said.At age 72, Reza reflected back on that childhood memory ahead of helping to launch a boycott against his own state of Arizona, linking the prejudice he experienced as a child to a bill he described as present-day prejudice against migrants.”Ever since then I’ve had a mission… to fight against injustice,” said Reza.Reza is an organizer for Barrio Defense Committees, an advocacy group that champions rights for migrants. The human-rights advocate from Phoenix called for a national boycott on his own state after Republicans in the Arizona House of Representatives passed House Concurrent Resolution 2060 on a party line, 31-29 vote.HCR 2060, a collection of initiatives that would target undocumented immigrants in the state, has been referred to as “SB 1070 2.0,” considered an even more aggressive approach to the controversial 2010 “show me your papers” law.Republicans say HCR 2060 is a solution to curtail border-related sex trafficking and fentanyl smuggling. According to Rep. Matt Gress of Phoenix, more than 274,000 migrants were apprehended last year for illegally crossing the border, including 294 on the terrorist watch list and 43,674 arrests of illegal migrants with criminal backgrounds.SB 1070, a 2010 law, would have required police officers to inquire about the legal status of anyone they thought might be in the country illegally. The law, designed to reduce the size of Ar …
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