Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Immigrants Abandon Murfreesboro Road as Economy Takes a Dive
Posted by PJ Tobia on Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 5:07 AM
The place was a ghost town. There were no hookers in front
of Star Market, the club formerly known as Los Dos de Oros looked dead, and
nobody was hanging out in front of the Mapco at
But now it seems the party is over. With new housing starts down, and people cutting back on expensive services like lawn-care, unskilled immigrants are having more and more trouble finding work.
It used to be easy for an unskilled immigrant to find a job just by standing on the corner in front of the aforementioned Mapco. Those days are gone--for now.
"The demand for this labor has decreased dramatically," says
Yuri Cunza, president of the Nashville Area Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. Cunza
also drove down Murfreesboro Pike on Friday night to meet me for dinner. "The
funny thing is, I don't think the English-only nonsense is
having any kind of effect at all. The economy is the major determinant as to
whether immigrants come to
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