SAN DIEGO (Border Report) — The head of a binational consumer group in the Baja-San Diego region is urging Mexicans to boycott the U.S. and American-made products.
During an interview with the El Sol Newspaper in Tijuana, Dennis Leon Barron said the reason his organization, Mexican American Self Help (MASH), is calling for the boycott is because the Trump administration uses migrants as “political peons and scapegoats.”
Barron said this is one way for Mexican citizens to take action against anti-migrant policies and tariffs brought on by President Donald Trump.
He’s specifically asking people in Mexico not to travel to the U.S., use or consume products made north of the border, and to go on 15-minute work stoppages if they work for an American firm.
“This is a call for a visitor boycott of the United States,” Barron told El Sol. “Mexicans should vacation anywhere but the United States in a country where Trump affirms that all Mexicans who cross the border are drug traffickers, rapists and murderers.”
Barron is also calling on the Mexican government to stop extraditing drug traffickers to the U.S. because “they won’t get a fair trial.”
“Mexico and its citizens can’t remain with their arms crossed,” he said.
