Quote:That would address part of the problem certainly.  However, I have seen people hire illegals to do private work.  Need some landscaping or construction work done on your house?  You can "DIY" by hiring a few hands to do the labor for you.  I've seen it personally.  Want your house cleaned?  Need to clean some horse stalls?  Bail some alfalfa?  The list goes on.

 

My point is, it's not just companies that hire illegals and it's not something easily tracked.

 

Yeah, I hear ya.  There will always be the "underground" market.  But that doesn't mean we shouldn't hit up the low hanging fruit.  Why there aren't stiff penalties on New Mexican restaurants that hire illegals is beyond me...

 

When I was in college I worked at a restaurant called Guarduno's as a waiter.  The kitchen staff had at least 3 people that weren't documented.  1 was from Cuba and the other 2 were from Mexico that I knew of.  They were all working as dishwashers, which nobody wants to do.  But man, it's obvious that the owners were getting a good deal by not having to pay payroll taxes, FICA or any other expense.  It was all under the table, straight cash.

 

Yeah, there will always be cracks in the system, but it doesn't mean you ignore the easy fixes.  

 

Oh and El Paso has changed quite a bit from the 90's....  Just to say.  I visited there for my wife's 1st cousin who just graduated in May.  The city looks alot different in 2015 compared to what it looked like in '94 when last I went for a soccer tournament out there.  It's not the Hell Hole that I remember it to be.

 

Juarez is absolutely a stones throw from El Paso, there is obviously going to be some influence from people coming across the border.  There's no way to really stop it.  But I wouldn't say that the El Paso is overrun and deteriorating from it.  Like I said, the city looks much improved now as opposed to back when I used to go there over the summer for soccer tourneys in the 90's.  It's still hotter than all get out, and I would never live there...  But hey, to each their own.  I-10, the main highway and all the surrounding commercial and residential areas are actually pretty well maintained and look newly developed.  The old industrial corridor that used to surround I-10 is no longer the eye sore it used to be.  Matter of fact, I couldn't see it at all.  And we spent 3 days driving around the city.  

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