Beep Beep
2007-01-12 15:22:58.312557+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
The Ladybug Letter #308 has some interesting musings on illegal immigration and borders.
On the other side of Club Frontera from the police station is El Pollero restaurant, a former drive-thru hamburger joint that now serves spit-roasted chicken. In Spanish El Pollero means “the chicken herder”. In street slang a “pollero” is also an ironic term for a smuggler who brings undocumented workers, or “pollo,” across the border, which makes the name of the chicken shack on lower Main a “fowl smelling pun”. Anyone walking down the Main Street of my town, seeing a Pollero next to a Frontera can hardly have any illusions about where our most important border is.