[Photo by Joe Hermosillo]By RON MEXICO
BROWNSVILLE, TX - There are a few hundred bon bons here who actually believe they are hip; that is, they speak English and shop for clothes in cosmopolitan McAllen upriver, where the stores offer better store aromas and goods.
Now, they claim their town - this one - is looking like one huge Illegal Alien labor camp. "The fashions of the illegal aliens are killing us," said resident Romeo "El Analfabetico" Salas, a high school graduate employed by the popular Valdez Tire Company. "Man, it's like every freakin' alien has found his or her way to our Mervyn's Department Store. I can't get shirts there anymore!"
Others say that is simply part of living so close to Mexico. Matamoros is ascloseasthis to Brownsville. And it is true that you see everybody wearing the same sort of baggy jeans, ballcaps and shoes. For the women, it is a choice somewhat demanded by the harsh weather extremes, yet there are striking similarities between what Illegal Alien women and local women wear, said pop-anthropologist Homer "El Calcetin" Zavaleta, a portly, bearded border scholar familiar with fashion trends.
"It's just the symbiotic relationship we enjoy with Mexico," he said this afternoon. "This too shall pass."
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4 comments:
If this guy wants to get hired, dressed like that might end him in the city jail.
Poor fellow, he doesn't look like he wants to work!!!
Maybe DP-M could give him a job, cleaning his lemo.
Maybe he is watching the cuties walking down 12th. street. Give him a break, he does look kind of sloppy.
Unfortunately, the city is full of unemployed - and under-employed - people. Imagine a similar case aboard a giant spaceship moving across the universe. Would that ship be able to afford ten-percenters (non-producers)? And, yet, politicians do squat on that social front...- Editor
Brownsville, like Harlingen, like San Benito, and every other city, lacks a vision.
I feel, sorry for all the unemployed people, but in this world, there has to be poverty, and misery, and wealth.(Not that I wish anyone too have the first two. Unfortunately, this is real life.
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