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Immigrants Rush to New Orleans as Contractors Fight for Workers
LA Times ^
| 10/10/5
| Peter Pae
Posted on 10/10/2005 11:37:09 AM PDT by Crackingham
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To: PAR35
"A father that supports his wife and kids? That is certainly not in keeping with the New Orleans urban culture." Yup. Round'em fast, could cast a bad 'light' on the ghetto residents. People actually getting ahead by working, unbelieveable.
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posted on
10/10/2005 11:57:59 AM PDT
by
blam
To: Baynative
Thats funny! He should have suggested trading overtime wavers for his payroll deductions and two week check delay.
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posted on
10/10/2005 12:00:39 PM PDT
by
elfman2
To: Crackingham
Why arent the unemployed black people who lived in New Orleans streaming back for these jobs/ Ohh !!I know they are sitting it out till their new homes are built.
To: Poodlebrain
Nope they would not hire locals because they would have to pay Workers Comp, FIT and FICA plus union scale. They will hire day labor of the street corner because they can and it is cheaper.
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To: AntiGuv
I wonder what TexMex Cajun tastes like? :)
I dunno but I bet it feels like Fire on the way out.
To: Bekki4Bush
I hate to say this but let's be honest here. Quite a few of the folks in NOLA would laugh in your face if you asked them to do some work. Work needs to be done and the Latinos will do it.
To: Crackingham
Contractors say one advantage in using Oro is that they don't have to deal with paperwork or check to see whether the workers are in the U.S. legally.
---Ever wonder how terrorists were getting into our country? Same way these people are and as you can see, as long as they work, they don't care who is getting in.
"There is a 'don't ask, don't tell,' mentality right now," Custer said. He added that there didn't seem to be any effort to crack down on illegal immigrants. "If they do who will rebuild New Orleans?"
---That "don't ask, don't tell" attitude could be the United States' downfall if these people aren't thoroughly checked out. If they are here legally, that is one thing. If they are NOT here legally then if they can't obey our laws of immigration, then they probably won't our other laws so send them back.
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posted on
10/10/2005 12:05:26 PM PDT
by
WasDougsLamb
(Just my opinion.Go easy on me........)
To: Crackingham
"If we can make enough money, we would like to buy a house and bring our children to New Orleans." Looks like the character of that city is about to change.
To: Les_Miserables
Nope they would not hire locals because they would have to pay Workers Comp, FIT and FICA plus union scale. They will hire day labor of the street corner because they can and it is cheaper. Thank you. Apparently this is a real hard concept for people to get into their heads. susie
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posted on
10/10/2005 12:06:21 PM PDT
by
brytlea
(All you need as ID to vote in FL is your Costco card...)
To: One Loud Voice
How do you propose we find out if they are illegal?
susie
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posted on
10/10/2005 12:06:53 PM PDT
by
brytlea
(All you need as ID to vote in FL is your Costco card...)
To: AntiGuv
Actually sounds pretty good
To: AntiGuv
A personal specialty of mine. I call it Cajexican. Crawfish tamales are great. And jambalya burritos are killer.
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posted on
10/10/2005 12:10:38 PM PDT
by
doodad
To: sgtbono2002; All
They expect Jesse Jackson to give them jobs..
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posted on
10/10/2005 12:11:45 PM PDT
by
KevinDavis
(the space/future belongs to the eagles --> http://www.cafepress.com/kevinspace1)
To: AntiGuv
This is interesting. I've recently spent several months in Memphis TN, and am now spending time in El Segundo CA. It has allowed me to make some pretty interesting (to me anyway) observations about lower income workers (busboys, gas station attendents, hotel clerks etc). The blacks in Memphis were for the most part, surly to outright hostile, lazy, and generally incompetent. They just didn't care about anything. The Hispanics in El Segundo are polite, effective and do their jobs well. And, for the most part they speak better English and are easier to understand. If I were seeking a team of workers to help reconstruct the disaster area around New Orleans, I know who I would turn to.
And before I get blasted for being a racist, let me point out quite clearly that I do not believe this is a racial issue. It clearly is not. It is a cultural issue. The culture in Memphis is a welfare culture where things are handed to you without regard to what you contribute in return. The culture in El Segundo is one in which people have taken the initiative to leave something bad, for something better. And the migrant workers here seem grateful for the opportunity. But race has nothing to do with it. Put a bunch of white, Connecticut snobs into a welfare environment, and within a generation or two, I am certain you would see the same laziness, poorly directed anger and incompetence.
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posted on
10/10/2005 12:15:24 PM PDT
by
Rokke
To: elfman2
Actually this is near what freelancers will take, and there is always bonus and chances to negotiate for more. If $15 -$17 is entry level, there are higher salaries to be had.
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posted on
10/10/2005 12:15:44 PM PDT
by
KC_for_Freedom
(Sailing the highways of America, and loving it.)
To: Poodlebrain
They will be no different than the waves of Irish, German and other European immigrants who landed in New Orleans in the early decades of the Twentieth Century.Their legal status will be very different.
Their loyalty to this country is very different.
What part of illegal do you people not understand?
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posted on
10/10/2005 12:16:36 PM PDT
by
ladyjane
To: Crackingham
Welcome to Nuevo Orleanos!
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posted on
10/10/2005 12:16:54 PM PDT
by
July 4th
(A vacant lot cancelled out my vote for Bush.)
To: Crackingham
Immigrants Illegal Aliens Rush to New Orleans as Contractors Fight for WorkersAbimael worked in Nashville as a day laborer and sent money to Filegonia and their three young children in Mexico. Within days after the hurricane hit New Orleans, Filegonia joined her husband in New Orleans...
Contractors say one advantage in using Oro [a labor broker] is that they don't have to deal with paperwork or check to see whether the workers are in the U.S. legally.
It's enough work to last a year, but after the hurricane most of his workers fled.
They fled or were they evacuated and told it was not safe to return to the city?
To: gubamyster
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