[AntiGuv]

Check out all the Latinos streaming to New Orleans. Who could've guessed?! ;^)

[Syberyenta]

And just WAIT until they start cooking meals together !!!!

[sheana]

I sent this article to DHS earlier today asking them .....where is ICE? The article even has the name of a contractor in it that is hiring these illegals.
Shameful..................

[Poodlebrain]

God bless them. Do you think the employers would not hire locals first to do the work if they were willing to fill the positions? Unfortunately, too many New Orleans residents have the feeling that physical labor is beneath them and they choose not to apply for such work. The Latinos who fill those jobs will become the middle class citizens of the rebuilt New Orleans, and they will eventually fill the jobs in the tourism industry when the rebuilding is completed. 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.

[Rokke]

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.

[Paul C. Jesup]

I would bet money that we will see health lawsuits by those illegals who went to New Orleans, given the toxins there, within six months.