Hotter climates naturally acquire a hotter-tasting cuisine, possiby because of loss of appetite with hot weather, and that is fine, but once the palate gets used to it, everything else tastes bland. Thus our pepper-deprived cuisines are eventually out the window.
This may seem minor with all the larger problems of illegal visitors, but it is just one more destruction of our culture.
Restaurant managers won't even tell you that they have a Mexican cook for fear that you are a snitch and will report them as hiring an illegal.
If I walked into a medium to expensive restuarant and saw a Mex or foreign cook unless it was an Italian type with an Italian cook, I’m gone.