I know the exact place you are speaking of. I used to live about a mile from that area.
There is another area between Chandler and Tempe that is the same way. The street signs are even in Spanish.
The town of Guadalupe? Don't their roots go way back to before the Reagan amnesty? Or am I wrong?
On the flip side, my uncle moved out of downtown Chandler (right behind the high school) because of a gang-related murder at the end of his street. And my parents are getting ready to move away from Maryvale (59th Ave. and Thomas Rd.) because of the gang-related crime and nightly shootings.
Many parts of the Valley are no longer safe to live in, and it is the unchecked illegal immigration that is to blame.
Many of the FROBLs try to convince us that we need the labor pool that illegal immigration provides. The problem is, their paradigm is wrong. Illegal immigration does not provide a stable, safe, tax-paying labor pool. It provides gangs and crime and welfare cheats and the whole host of problems Spiff delineated in his post.
Guys, this is going to get worse before it gets any better...
And that's another thing. I live in Mountain View, Arizona - why did someone call it "Sierra Vista" - a Spanish name. I'll bet there is NO "Mountain View" in Mexico. Half the streets here are "Camino de" this and "Avenida de la" that and "Paseo de" some other thing. I'll be there are no "Smith Drives" or "Washington Streets" in Mexico. Now, why is that? Why do we have to have all this Spanish-speaking crap here, how much English stuff is in Mexico!? Why is it such a one-way street?
No, this area was NOT settled by the Spanish or Mexico. Parts were settled by Mormons sent down here from Utah by Brigham Young. Parts were settled by miners and such. Sierra Vista was settled by those supporting Fort Huachuca. Sierra Vista came about in 1953 and there were hadly any streets here - Fry and a few numbered streets. Yet, all the new streets now get Mexican names (see Canyon de Florez, etc.) What's up with that?!