The following article is from the15rounds.com website.

By Norm Frauenheim

Unknown Jorge Marquez, unbeaten and undocumented, works nights to support a wife and four young kids. By day, he trains at a Phoenix gym for what he hopes will be his real job.

But Marquez is an apprentice without a trade, which is another way of saying he is an immigrant without papers or a potential purse because of the biggest fight these days in Arizona, once a busy and productive boxing market.

“There are a lot of guys, guys like me, wanting to fight,’’ Marquez, a junior-welterweight, said during a workout at Central Boxing near downtown Phoenix. “It’s not that they’re afraid to fight. It’s that they can’t. They don’t let us. We’re not legally here.’’

Actually, Marquez has been here, here in Arizona, for most of his life. He met his wife, a U.S. citizen, in Phoenix. Now 22, he has lived, gone to school and worked in Arizona since he arrived from his birthplace in the Mexican state of Chihuahua as a 3-year-old. But Marquez (3-0, 1 KO) hasn’t fought since a Phoenix card in June, 2007 because of immigration legislation that makes a work visa mandatory for any fighter from Mexico or Mars or anywhere other than the U.S. No work visa means no license from the Arizona State Boxing Commission.

The Arizona process ends right there in first-round stoppage that some say has put the sport in jeopardy in a state that is home to Hall of Famer Michael Carbajal and has loomed significantly in fights for Antonio Margarito, Juan Manuel Marquez, Julio Cesar Chavez, Oscar De La Hoya and Rafael Marquez in a legendary lineage that goes all the way back to late icon Salvador Sanchez.

“Right now, in my mind, Arizona is the toughest place in the U.S. to do boxing,’’ said Eric Gomez, vice-president and chief matchmaker for De La Hoya’s company, Golden Boy Promotions.

Both expense and bureaucracy are increasingly turning Arizona into a state that lot of promoters might want to avoid, despite a big Mexican and Mexican-American audience. In nearby states, there are fewer bureaucratic steps and none of the attorney fees that are the part of the price of having to jump through all those regulatory hoops. There is California, Nevada, Texas, and New Mexico.

PHOENIX — A van carrying 20-25 suspected undocumented immigrants caused a car crash Monday morning which left the van flipped on its side after slamming into two cars.

Witnesses say that as soon as the van rested on its side, undocumented immigrants sprang from it and ran into a nearby residential neighborhood. Authorities had been chasing the van when they first noticed it driving erratically on the highway. They were in pursuit in hopes that the driver would lead them to a drop house. However, the chase was called off when the van neared an elementary school.

Police caught 21 people and took those with injuries to a nearby hospital.