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Immigration, In-Migration, Freedom, and the Market

I live in an odd town — right between an middle/upper class caucasion town and a lower/middle class hispanic town. They feed off each other in amazing ways — the hispanics who worked in the caucasian-owned restaurants just 10 years ago now co-own their own restaurants in the hispanic area. 4 huge fresh markets in the hispanic town have almost all latino signage, but their customer base is probably 50% caucasian. The hispanic town is a symbol of a booming market, with new stores going up every week that cater to the latino crowd (usually petite clothing sizes, culture-specific clothing and shoes, and even car stereo stores pertaining to the latino music culture). The caucasian town keeps forcing residents to shop elsewhere, recently with another sales tax increase (on restaurants!) and a push to a no-smoking policy. The police in the caucasian town are now 100% about traffic tickets instead of about protecting the citizens from the growing number of thefts and robberies.

But there’s a problem. As this blossoming hispanic town grew, the vultures at the INS have been watching closer every day. One business owner that lives in my community recently fled to his native country (Guatemala) because he was tipped off that the INS was ready to shut him down and ship him off. According to relatives, he extracted all the equity from his home (worth around $300,000 and paid off entirely) and took off. I know we won’t hear from him again, he showed me pictures a few years ago of the mansions he built in Guatemala. From what I know, he left 20 employees behind who had no idea how to continue his home-improvement business.

Read this entire article at the anarcho-capitalism site.