I worked in and around Memphis in 1995 and 2002. The increase in the number of mexicans around between those two years was very noticeable to me. I remember seeing a few in '95, but in '02 they were all over the place. I'm sure that number has grown much larger by now. You would never have seen mexicans in the Delta 10-15 years ago, but now I tend to see a few every time I go to town. Most of the remaining cotton gins no longer hire local Whites or negroes to work the machines when the picking starts. Instead they import a bunch of mexicans and cram about 20 of them into the few remaining old tenant houses until the season is over. The first few years they did that, the mexicans all went back home, but now some of them are finding places to stay year round. One of the most aggravating things about it is that they won't learn English, so I have no idea what they are saying when I'm around them. Modern Amerika stinks!