Thursday, May 17, 2012

Undocumented, Unemployed Immigrant Sells Good Eats at Chicago Laundromats

This is a perfect example of how hard working immigrants are and how entrepreneurial they are.  Within hours he had started a new business! - - Donna Poisl

from EFE

Chicago –  With a booming business preparing and selling food products, Mexican immigrant David Martínez practices just the kind of entrepreneurship the Chicago municipality seeks to promote among immigrants.

But David is undocumented and though he does not dismiss the possibility that he might one day formally establish a business, his immediate goal is to survive after losing his job at a wholesale bakery.

"For three years I did a little of everything, from scrubbing floors to baking," he told Efe.
"But I made a mistake and ended up without a job, so I immediately had to find a way to survive," he said.
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