Chapter 46: Mexican Gangsters (I)

After a while, Bezos returned to his seat with two trays. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

"It's a burger for the two of you, and fries. Alice, double thickened beef patty and large fries, are you sure you can eat it?"

Alice proved her appetite with practical actions, she held the three-inch thick burger in her hand, and the mouth that seemed extremely small a second ago instantly grew as huge as a hippopotamus, and she swallowed a large piece in one bite!

"Wow!"

Sissi had French fries in her mouth: "You can compare this bite to my five mouthfuls!"

"Huhu~ I'm very edible~ Look at it, Sissi, if you don't eat your share quickly, I might come to grab it~"

It's also thanks to Alice's great talent, Rao is that her mouth is stuffed into a balloon, but her speech is not delayed at all.

Bezos looked down at his burger, and when he compared it, he realized that he didn't seem to have the big mouth of Alice, and he was still a grown man......

After chatting and eating for a while, Alice said, "Jeff, since you are now a computer science major and you are a sophomore, have you considered working in Silicon Valley in the future?"

Bezos ate his fries slowly: "Of course it would be great if I could go to Silicon Valley, after all, the density of computer companies there is too high." However, housing prices are not cheap there, and if possible, it seems better to find a home in New York. ”

Bezos's view is not unreasonable, for a young man like him born in New Mexico, the charm of the Big Apple in New York is naturally needless to say than "just" in the booming Silicon Valley. After all, there are no Yahoo, Google, Facebook and other companies on the West Coast, and as an Ivy League student, it is indeed a normal choice for most people to go to Manhattan to find a good job.

"By the way, you said your hometown was Albuquerque?"

Alice recalled Bezos's joking self-introduction earlier, and her eyes suddenly lit up: "With Microsoft?"

"Oh, yes, you know the company. ”

Bezos is very happy that Alice can know such a top company in the industry: "I heard that Mr. Gates doesn't seem to rent a house in the city, but just lives in the company. Microsoft is so lucky to have a hard-working boss like him!"

Alice's eyes twitched, and although she could ask Gates to go to Los Angeles, she thought it would be better to go to Albuquerque next week. In the past few years, she has only visited a few designated tourist destinations even for vacations, and in the continental United States, New Mexico has never been to such an area.

Anyway, the Mexican chicken wrap from the previous life was also famous, wasn't it?

Taking a bite of the spicy chicken thigh burger, Alice said vaguely, "What kind of city is Albuquerque." ”

Bezos didn't know what Alice wanted to ask, shrugged and said, "What...... Every year on the first weekend of October, we hold the International Balloon Festival, when hot air balloonists from all over the world release huge hot air balloons of different shapes. At the same time, tourists are driving tourism here, and the price of hotel rooms has skyrocketed, so it also attracts many people to come in RVs. ”

"In addition, there are a lot of Hollywood movies and TV series that have been filmed in our area, after all, there is a region with both Mexican style and Gobi desert landscape, except for us, which is Texas. A lot of the early denim films, either Texas or New Mexico, were the locations for more than eighty percent of all denim films. ”

When it comes to his hometown, Bezos, of course, gushes about it, and the two girls silently enjoy a free lunch in his tirade.

But despite this, Sissi still didn't give Bezos a good look. In her opinion, the McDonald's set meal for two people is only ten dollars, so cheap to invite two young and beautiful girls to accompany her to lunch, this twenty-year-old man has taken a big advantage!

So, while eating, Sissi didn't forget to glance at Alice with her eyes.

"Hmm...... It doesn't seem to be too peaceful there, does it?"

Alice deliberately ignored Sissi's dissatisfied eyes, but said very seriously: "New Mexico is the southern border state of the United States, close to Mexico, and the border city of Epasol can be directly connected to Albuquerque by Highway 25. Hey, Jeff, isn't your smuggling situation there?"

Bezos groaned for a moment and said, "It's okay, the state police have always been very strong in cracking down on smuggling, but if you say that there are indeed a lot of people of Mexican descent." We meet those people here and in Arizona and Texas all the time. Oh yes, and even in California, a lot of jobs are filled by cooks, cleaners, cashiers and things like that. ”

After speaking, he blinked and said, "Why did you suddenly think of asking this?"

Alice slowed down her chewing food, but didn't answer anything.

As a Chinese-American, Alice certainly pays special attention to other racial minorities.

When it comes to minorities, it is not necessary that Alice has lived in the United States for many years, and she knew about this situation even in her previous life. Although the United States as a whole is known as a melting pot, the geographical distribution of each race, the area where they live in urban areas, and even the division of occupations are relatively fixed. It can be said that although the United States promotes the idea of democratic equality every day, it is often the most obvious in class.

Leaving aside the trite black-and-white question, Mexicans are one of the most typical characteristics.

First of all, whether it is legal entry or illegal entry, the three southern states of the United States are the most preferred regions for them, just as North Korean refugees and South Korean businessmen often choose to live in Jilin Province, especially Yanbian City and the Korean Autonomous Region.

Second, given the level of education of the majority of Mexicans, and the rampant smuggling in the south, many people are restricted to certain occupations. Supermarket cashiers are already relatively high-end, especially for those who come smuggling, basically they can only work as cooks and waiters in various restaurants.

Of course, this is generally a good idea, and in terms of the composition of Mexicans in the United States as a whole, illegal smuggling is still the mainstream. For them, it is like an old farmer in the mountainous mountains of western China who does not go to the eastern coastal cities to make a living, and in addition to being basically limited to working in industries such as fruit stalls and cleaners, they often have to endure all kinds of extra troubles.

Alice has read about it in the newspapers several times, and the truth about the smuggling is that a group of scalpers specially collect poor and destitute homeless people on the streets of Mexico, and smuggle them into the United States, and live in areas with poor security but cheap rents, like pigs, dozens of people are crammed into a house, and they are charged hundreds of dollars a month for rent and utilities.

They get up in the early hours of the morning, eat a little simple rice and boiled beans, and then leave them in all corners of the city to sell fresh fruit that has just been picked from the farm. Standing there for more than 10 hours a day, with no food to eat, no water to drink, and no toilet to eat, a large box of fruit sold for 10 yuan, a hard day, can only earn 40 to 50 US dollars a day, and can earn 300 US dollars a week, but pay the monthly rent and water and electricity required by scalpers, and the remaining hundreds of yuan have to repay the scalpers' transit trafficking fees, usually ranging from more than 2,000 to 3,000 US dollars per person.

When the debt is paid off, they have been living in the United States for about half a year, and most of the hundreds of hard-earned money they earn every month after that are usually sent back to their hometown in Mexico, where they have their wives and children and relatives, waiting for the life-saving money here!

Some residents in some small towns tend to think that these old inkers are standing on the side of the road to obstruct the eyes and traffic, and they will naturally come to the police. As soon as the police came, they would confiscate the fruits of the old Mo, and the old Mos not only had to pay for the cost of the fruits of the scalpers, but they had no income for a day, and because they did not have a car, they had to walk back to their homes with two feet to report to the scalpers.

In fact, especially for Alice, American law is often strange. Although the judicial department has a fine division of labor, it will only strictly abide by the laws and regulations of its own small territory!

Just like the police in the small town know that these are illegal immigrants, but they are not immigration officials, so it is not their duty to control illegal immigrants, they only take care of their own affairs, so they just confiscate the fruits, drive away Lao Mo to stand on the side of the street, and then ignore nothing!

After being confiscated and issued a ticket, the old Mo people were not only distressed that the tender fruit was thrown into the trash, but also felt sorry for the money they could not earn and would be compensated, but they did not go to court to argue or try to reduce the fine.

Because he is an illegal immigrant at the bottom of the hierarchy with no status, his shouts and defenses are even more stupid and no one will listen!

"So, since there are a lot of Mexicans out there......"

Alice's eyes flickered, and she said in a low voice: "There should be a lot of gangs, right? After all, the whole of Mexico can be said to be the world of gangs, and these immigrants should follow suit, right?"

"Well, that's right, so if you want to go to Albuquerque, be careful, don't go to the old Mo's territory. ”

Bezos kept munching on his burger, and he didn't think much of why Alice was asking these questions out of nowhere.

"Well, got it. ”

So he didn't see it even more, and when Alice nodded slowly, her bright blue eyes shone brightly, and there seemed to be a half-solidified high-energy fluid rippling in them.