PART 2 ILLEGALS, HARD WORKERS AND GOOD FAMILY MEN.
i'll raise my hand here . i'm part of the cause and problem. 1993 i had just received my first moving job. I had a truck but no help

I needed somebody to work for $75 a day. None of my so called friends wanted any part of helping me. In fact nobody wanted to work for $8.00 an hour cash. The morning of the move. i stopped at a home depot to buy boxes and bubble wrap. I had figured on doing this job magically by myself. when out of the parking lot comes a 60 year old guy. He says in broken English "i can work. If you need help" He had watched me pull into the parking lot with a truck. before i said a word he say "$75 dollars a day and lunch and i drop him off in Trenton nj when we are done" His name was Hector. he came from Puerto rico. not illegal. I crushed him. Worked his arse to hard. At the end of the day he thanked me and said come to his house tomorrow morning and he'll have somebody else there to work with me.
enter Guerillmo. Hector told his neighbor " he had a job for him." Guerillmo was waiting for me in Trenton @ 7am. That day i changed his name to memo. It has stuck for 25 years. easier for me to pronounce at the time. Memo had been in the usa for 8 years. He was 25 when we met. He did a fine job. Then came Prospero his brother-in-law. Next manlo their cousin. followed by Prospero's son and 1 more cousin. all illegal. all came pre 1995. everyone worked 65-70 hours a week. working up to $12-15 an hour. I could not get a teenager or guy in his 20's to work for that. I have been to their weddings,birthdays holiday parties and other events. all good guys. They came from a dirt poor village.
yes they did things wrong. In 1995-99 you could go to a NJ DMV and buy a driver license. Walk in wearing a specific color baseball cap. wait for someone to see your colored cap. give them your application with a few hundred dollars folded into and you get a license. NJ dmv's were private run sites. This all ended nov. of 2001 or thereabouts. Driver's licenses are harder to get in Nj now. All these guys have become legal. some had to go home and wait a year or more for reentry Into the USA. Some became legal through a daisy chain of events. ie. your brother is legal so we can make you legal. that has ended also.
They only wanted a better life. People now want to come here and change our way of life. Harm us or prove one god is better then the other. We need a way of vetting in coming people.currently people can bring anything they want through our boarders. It needs to change. For what it is worth most of the Latin Americans are going back home. It's hard for them to find jobs and housing. People from my wife's country are leaving to also. opportunities are better elsewhere.
Part 3 later. now you got me going. Next vent will be Who's hand is in the cookie jar.