Dance clubs and concerts are the last places people think about being impacted by immigration and its so-called “reform”, but a recent article from San Antonio, Texas tells how dance and concert halls are feeling the heat thanks to immigration raids.

Artists and promoters are reporting that recent raids by the U.S. Border Patrol on dancehalls and nightclubs that usually play music or feature artists that cater to Mexican music fans have dramatically cut down attendance in recent months.

Because halls can no longer fill their dance floors anymore, musicians are being forced not play their music south of the border.

In a recent interview, Mexican norteño singer Polo Urias, who just released his latest CD “Sigue La Maquina Dando,” said he has seen a major drop-off in attendance at his shows in the Southwest. Urias is on a current tour that has him visiting San Antonio’s Noche Caliente dancehall on Oct. 13.

“That’s one reason we have concentrated lately on touring mostly in Mexico,” Urias said in Spanish. “I don’t think that is fair because they (INS) are targeting people when they least expect it.”

What’s next? Immigration is going to start rounding up people at locations where people send money back home to their relatives or at the local bodegas where people buy food for dinner?

Via / MySA.com

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