"Now there is less demand, and it is for workers with more skills and perhaps certification by the state. This translates to less demand for low-skill, undocumented workers."
Now was there anybody out there who didn't suspect for one minute that this would be a story about illegal immigrants. It is one of the usual fluff pieces about some poor lawbreaking, illegal alien, doing the work Americans won't do having to head back to Honduras.
Look New Orleans is a cesspool and with the mayor and all of the other elected officials from that area up to their eyeballs in corruption is there any doubt that the mayor of the "Chocolate City" wouldn't exploit illegal aliens?
U.S. Census data indicates nearly 100,000 Hispanics moved to the Gulf Coast after Katrina, but the Census tends not to reach undocumented immigrants.
A 2006 survey of 200 New Orleans construction workers by Tulane University and the University of California found half were Latino and one-quarter were illegal immigrants.
They are self deporting themselves now because work is drying up, mostly due to bureaucratic delays, but hey that is nothing new for NO. It that same shuffling of responsibility and bureaucratic nonsense that put them in this mess.
Is it just me or has anybody else noticed that the recovery in Iraq is going better then the recovery efforts in New Orleans? To quote Gen Honore from those days immediately following the hurricane, "Don't get stuck on stupid."
Just for an extra chuckle here is the by line on the article.
By E. EDUARDO CASTILLO, AP
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