"I would assume the 700 are short termers. Once they get out, they go home. The superdomers, they're stuck."
All the more reason to make the 700 wait in line. They were going back to the comfort of home anyway. In the Bible there is a verse about "abstaining from THE VERY APPEARANCE of evil" If people are saying this is not a race or class thing, they sure messed up on that one.
The Black 'Rat Mayor Nagin sure did. But I for one think getting the trapped tourists out of the way, is an expedient way of alleviating the problems, since the biggest question is where to shelter a million people for several months or years. The faster the list can shrink the better. No evil there.