Make No Mistake, In Las Vegas, Panda Express is Mexican Food

Our David laughs when he says this--the vegetables are harvested by Mexicans, food cooked by Mexicans, eaten by Mexicans..Panda Express is Mexican Food.

"On Mondays, he liked to go up into China Town, just after dawn, when all the deliveries were being made.  Crates of produce, carrots, lettuce, broccoli, cauliflower, melons and a dozen varieties of cabbage; tended by Latinos in the central valley and consumed by Chinese in Chinatown, having passed through Anglo hands just long enough to extract the nourishing money."

From A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore


"The growing presence of illegal immigrants in home building, mostly working for small labour contractors, might help explain why government statistics have recorded only a small decline in construction employment, despite the collapse in residential investment.
'Technically they don't fire them' said Myrna Martinez, coordinator for the Fresno office of the American Friends Service Committee, a nonprofit organization working on social assistance projects for immigrant workers, 'They just tell them that there is no more work."

Picture and Quote from this New York Times Article.

"if you have legal work papers, there are many jobs for you in the United States.  You can be a farm worker where you get to test pesticides directly in the field."
quote from a sarcastic but accurate article at  ralphmag.org

"The truth is, they know we work harder than they do"

"God gives money to the wealthy because without it they would starve to death
from Crossing the Wire, by Will Hobbs"

I was incredulous to see this article here"..[Mexican town] offers visitors a chance to experience what Mexican immigrants go through when they illegally cross the US border....give curious tourists a relatively genuine experience"