Arizona immigration law cited as reason for restaurant closing

[pinboy3niner]

Arizona immigration law cited as reason for closing 'Campeones'
by Angelique Soenarie - Jun. 10, 2010 03:08 PM
The Arizona Republic


Arizona's new immigration law was one of the factors that gave one of Mesa's major new entertainment venues a knockout punch, its owner says.

Julio César Chávez Campeones, a $4.5 million boxing-themed dining and entertainment venue that opened in November at Country Club Drive and Southern Avenue, closed a week ago.
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Weymouth said he plans to remodel the 30,000 square-foot-facility into AZ Country, a country western dining and establishment that will open in July.
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"Unfortunately, with this new Senate bill 1070 it really has impacted the entire Hispanic community, and anybody that has a business that catered to the Hispanic community has been impacted," Weymouth said. "It appeared to me that people were leaving the state before the bill passed. I also felt the Hispanic population be it legal or illegal were fearful of the whole thing. I felt that that really disrupted business. We had to come up with a concept that wasn't going to be affected. They're not going to put a bill that is against cowboys."


Read more: http://www.azcentral.com/community/mesa/articles/2010/06/10/20100610mesa-immigration-campeones-arizona.html

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Nope. They don't profile cowboys in Arizona.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

1. In a business with a very high failure rate, the reason this one went down is the new AZ law?

Nice try

[pinboy3niner]

2. It was cited as one of several factors

Other articles have reported some decline in retail business that began as soon as the law was passed--as happened after enactment of other anti-immigrant legislation in the past.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

3. It was an interesting premise but cowboy bars tend to be a safer bet

[pinboy3niner]

5. LOL. I'd say so. A boxing-themed place was "a niche too far" nt

[Biker13]

7. +

[SargeUNN]

4. Here is a fact

I have interviewed a Hispanic leader and they told me on my radio show that many Hispanic AMERICANS are leaving Arizona because they don't want the hassle SB1070 is going to throw on them. It has been the same way everywhere any law like it has been tried and each time it has failed.

[pinboy3niner]

6. Excellent point, Sarge!

And I've seen reports of extended families leaving because of fear for one undoc'd member, when the rest are all American citizens or otherwise legally documented. They're uprooting the entire family and pulling all the kids out of Arizona schools to move to someplace like New Mexico, or Nevada, or ANYPLACE but Arizona.

[treestar]

10. Don't blame then but then that is giving the racists what they want

Their own lily white state.

[unblock]

8. see? bigotry works!

tell me this isn't going to make the racists support yet more bs like that law. if it gets brown-skinned people to leave the state and turns restaurants that cater to brown-skinned people into restaurants that cater to "cowboys" (let's ignore the big numbers of southwester brown-skinned cowboys), the bigots will surely take this as a sign of victory and we'll see more of this despicable type of legislation.

[Blue-Jay]

9. Tip of the iceberg.

Keep fucking that chicken, racists.