In my eyes, the following article shows a mindset that is a contributing factor to the total failure of the Bush Administration and the 109th Congress to reform immigration policy. A pizza chain in Texas will soon accept the Mexican Peso for sales of its food products:

Starting Monday, patrons of the Dallas-based Pizza Patrón chain, which caters heavily to Latinos, will be able to purchase American pizzas with Mexican pesos.

Restaurant experts and economists said they knew of no other food chain with locations so far from the Mexican border offering such a service.

“We’re trying to reach out to our core customer,” Antonio Swad, president of Pizza Patrón Inc., said Friday.

Read more at Dallas Morning News 

While I can see a distinct market advantage here, the question arises, “What happened to the practice of using American currency in America?” In my opinion, this is the same category of tragedy as seen in mid-2006, when thousands of illegal aliens took to the streets in protest of potential American immigration reform with Mexican flags in hand and other isolated incidents, including a Mexican flag being raised at a high school and a post office.

Here’s an idea for consumers who intend to pay physical pesos for goods in the United States - go to a bank and exchange your pesos for American dollars!