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Maybe you or someone else on this thread can explain to me why Houston is having so many problems with their Katrina evacuees while other cities, e.g., Baton Rouge, Atlanta, are not?

Every city that took in a sizeable number of refugees has encountered the same problems, just on a smaller scale since none took in anywhere near the numbers that Houston did.

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"Every city that took in a sizeable number of refugees has encountered the same problems, just on a smaller scale since none took in anywhere near the numbers that Houston did."

Alabama did a background check on evacuees to this state. We eventually took 23,000 and have had few problems. Now, keep in mind that the population of metro Houston is larger than the whole state of Alabama.