In Phoenix, what I’ve seen varies and is not obvious because unlike in California, most illegals are spread out, they don’t congregate in ghettos.
That being said, one such, who owned a small grocery store catering mostly to Mexicans, had to sell out to a competitor who just closed the store down. I noted that nothing is on sale in the competitors store anymore, for several reasons.
The ex-store owner is going back to the underground economy, where he made the money to open his store in the first place. He has too many reasons to stay, including most of his family are legal. The biggest effect is that cash landscaping and repair will get cheaper again.
There are more Mexican prostitutes working now, but for the most part not street walking, but in the suburbs. And the price of illegal drugs is expected to take a sharp dive. Both of these are of concern to some parents of teenage boys I know, who no longer allow them to associate with Mexicans.
The price of fake IDs is skyrocketing, if you can get them at all. That is a lot less important than you might imagine, because there are a lot of citizens that abhor IDs as well. Most of the illegal ID traffic is for Mexicans who are too invested locally to leave, and who can shell out a few thousand dollars for quality fakes. With that kind of money, ID theft is going to be endemic.
In larger families, the legal members are becoming fronts for the illegals. For instance, a man who looks 35 has an ID that says he is 60, or a 28 year old woman whose ID says she is 16. She works and goes to high school at the same time.
One way around the situation for employers is to have an employee who works at home. He produces three or four times as much product as the typical employee. Another is the employee who puts in a double shift, but looks different depending on the time of day. As long as his ID says he, or they, are legal, they are.
But again, much of this is invisible unless you are either involved in it in some way, or know somebody who knows. It will be a long time before much can be said one way or another.
post more on this! very good!