[AuntB]

Many articles have been posted on FR about how the demographics of NO have changed in the last few years...since illegal aliens have been brought in to ‘rebuild’.

[snip]but the overall percentage of Latinos in New Orleans remained low - just 3.1 percent of the city’s 485,000 residents in 2000.

An extensive population-based study conducted by Tulane University and the University of California, Berkeley in 2006 found that nearly half the reconstruction workforce in New Orleans was Latino, and that 54 percent of that population was undocumented, working illegally in the United States. The vast majority (77 percent) of Latino workers did not live in the New Orleans area before the storm, but neither did they cross into the U.S. for the work.

Like Saucedo, almost 90 percent of the undocumented workers in New Orleans lived in the United States prior to the storm, and many came from Texas (41 percent) and Florida (11 percent) to work in the reconstruction of the city, according to the Tulane/Berkeley report. More established construction workers - those with their own trucks and equipment - were in high demand, and teams of Latino workers arrived from across the American South and Southwest.

“We saw a huge increase in the number of Hispanic maternity patients,” said Dr. Kevin Work, an obstetrician with the Jefferson Parish Health Unit in New Orleans. After the storm, Work started advertising his private practice in Spanish to reach out to the new residents. “I expected to be busy, but I’m delivering at least 50 babies each month right now, and 85 to 90 percent of them are Hispanic,” he said. “The demand for this service is unbelievable.”

http://www.immigrationhereandthere.org/2008/03/nuevo_new_orleans_latino_immig.php

[Drew68]

Many articles have been posted on FR about how the demographics of NO have changed in the last few years...since illegal aliens have been brought in to ‘rebuild’.

The environment of crime and murder in New Orleans is the product of the city's black residents, many of whom have lived in New Orleans for generations. Illegals have little to do with it.

[BBell]

Most of the Latino workers left the area in 2008. It was like a mass exodus. Taco trucks disappearing, Mexican restaurants and stores closing. LA. is not a friendly state for Illegals, so they tended not to want to put down any roots.

BTW, Nagin was pissed about all the illegals. Right after the storm there were high paying jobs and many of the locals filled them. Then the illegals showed up and the wage bottomed out. Nagin was pissed and he went against his party and the NAACP because of it. In the end there was little he could do. The Latinos stayed out of trouble for the most part and kept to themselves.

[Kirkwood]

The state of Louisiana itself has been using illegal aliens to do subcontracted renovation work in the NOLA area.