Posted on 12/11/2006 7:20:50 PM PST by mcg2000
A little more than a year after Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans is seeing a boom in its Latino population, with many coming to help reconstruct the city.
Health officials had not anticipated the surge in the city's Latino population, The New York Times reported.
In a demographic twist, hundreds of Latino babies are being born in New Orleans to immigrant Latino workers, both legal and illegal. In a city largely abandoned by its doctors after the storm, this new population adds a financial strain to the already struggling city.
Many expectant mothers, lacking in financial assistance, cannot afford prenatal care and often forgo it, the newspaper said, and go to the hospital only when they are ready to deliver. At Tulane-Lakeside Hospital, doctors report delivering 215 to 240 babies a month.
One New Orleans obstetrician, Dr. Kevin Work, focuses almost entirely on Latino women -- something he decided to do after seeing the enormous influx of expectant Latino mothers into the city after Katrina.
I have a friend in Corpus Cristi, TX and he tells me there are many, many New Orleans people still in Corpus on welfare.
Well, just substituting one set of problems for another, I guess. I hope Aaron Broussard copes with the crisis...
The Lousiana State released a census of sort several days ago stating as of July 2006, there were more WHITES than BLACKS in Orleans Parish.
Different story ... same topic. A prefence for the local/regional perspective rather than 2000 miles away.
Well, I suppose NO in it's present condition is still better than Mexico...
So what?? If they are here legally big deal...
Ping
From the article...
immigrant Latino workers, both legal and illegal.
Why would these intrepid Naginauts go off welfare just because of a geographical change? They are entitled no matter where they are.
When they get back to NOLA, they'll still be on welfare and thus have ample leisure necessary to critique the work done by illegal aliens to restore their city.
They were on welfare in New Orleans too. They are losers, who will be on welfare no matter where they go.
Oh, be realistic...I'd bet 99.9% of them are illegal criminals.
I met a lady in the Grocery here in NC who was born/raised in N.O., lived there 52 years and moved here last year. When I told her I lived there part of my youth she told me "hold on to those memories of what it was because the N.O. we knew is gone forever".
I always thought that sopapillas were tastier than beignets anyways.
I'm dead set against illegal immigration but you have to hand it to the Hispanics, many illegal, they are doing the work NOLA escapees refuse to do.
Can't wait for the Chipotle Jambalaya
Well I guess when someone says LA is full of hispanics they no longer can assume they're speaking of Los Angeles...:)
Just so you'll know. Aaron is from Jefferson Parish, not New Orleans. His famous crying spell went as follows:
"The guy who runs this building I'm in, Emergency Management, he's responsible for everything. His mother was trapped in St. Bernard nursing home, and every day she called him and said, 'Are you coming, son? Is somebody coming?' And he said, 'Yeah, Momma, somebody's coming to get you. Somebody's coming to get you on Tuesday. Somebody's coming to get you on Wednesday. Somebody's coming to get you on Thursday. Somebody's coming to get you on Friday' — and she drowned on Friday night. She drowned on Friday night. Nobody's coming to get us, nobody's coming to get us. The secretary has promised, everybody's promised. They've had press conferences — I'm sick of the press conferences. For God's sake, shut up and send us somebody!"
That lady was exagerating. If you didn't live in a flooded area things are in pretty good shape. Homes with minor damage are well on the way to being restored. Some of the severely flooded areas are starting to come back; but, it is going to be a long, long time before things are really re-established. Those areas won't ever be the very same again. But, with good luck and good planning things can and will be better than before.
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