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TUCSON -- While groups and individuals around the country are calling for boycotts as a result of Arizona's 1070 Immigration law, one prominent Tucson group is not.

The 500 member Tucson Hispanic Chamber of Commerce opposes any boycott.

Lea Marquez Peterson, the chamber's president, says, "We are representing the business community. We are not a social justice organization. Any kind of potential boycott from the nation or from Mexico could be devastating. And we want to address that now. "

Peterson says she'll go to Hermosillo next week where she and her counterpart there will urge Arizona and Mexico to continue to support each other.

Peterson says, "We're going to be arm in arm to oppose the boycott."

Southern Arizona Congressman Raul Grijalva believes boycotts because of 1070 were to be expected.

Grijalva says, "These kinds of actions, extreme actions have consequences and the only way people can get back at {the action} is either through the courts or through economic sanctions and those are the two things that are going on right now."

Grijalva continues to urge conventions to stay out of the state. He says, "As long as they {Arizona politicians} have this need to continue to vilify a group of people in this state, we'll have the need to make them pay the price for it."