From: A Dallas Reader [Email him]

The Washington Post has a piece (reproduced in the San Francisco Chronicle) on how the "Restaurant Industry" is worried about ICE raids—--presumably because they have lots of illegals working for them.[Planned ICE raids are putting the restaurant industry on edge, by Tim Carman, The Washington Post, July 12, 2019]

Economics 101: Shortages are always and everywhere a function of price. I worked in the restaurant industry here in Dallas decades ago. Everyone I worked with at that time was native born. They were whites, blacks and Mexican-Americans. Restaurants were thriving in Dallas decades ago.

What changed?

See previous letters from the same reader.