Posted on 06/27/2008 5:26:20 AM PDT by TornadoAlley3
Hurdles of language, mistrust addressed:
A burgeoning Hispanic population has helped rebuild New Orleans during the past two and a half years. Now officials are coming to grips with the challenge of moving and finding safe refuge for that population should another hurricane threaten.
Since Hurricane Katrina, as many as 14,000 Hispanic immigrants have arrived in New Orleans to provide muscle and skills for the recovery effort. Now civic groups as well as government officials say overcoming cultural and language barriers between emergency officials and Spanish speakers -- especially the undocumented -- has taken on new urgency.
(Excerpt) Read more at nola.com ...
Well, then, sounds like a Darwinian situation, and liberals support Darwinism, don’t they?
If you can’t evacuate because you choose not to learn English and the America culture, and you die, then the “fittest” were the ones who chose otherwise.
Lt. Col. Jerry Sneed, director of the New Orleans Office of Emergency Preparedness, was joined by Deano Bonano, emergency response chief for Jefferson Parish, in emphasizing that no undocumented worker will be turned away or face deportation at evacuation centers or shelters.
“We will not require at our locations any type of visa or green card,” Bonano said.
Maybe they could use school buses.
Perhaps the "undocumented" in New Orleans can simply learn ebonics.
New Orleans will ask and receive money from taxpayers in advance of a storm to assist.
What pap.Do you think their that stupid? They haven’t spent
generations on welfare.They won’t be waiting for the yellow
school bus to come.
The “Chocolate City” is transformed into the Mariachi City.
What’s so hard about broadcasting “VAMANOS!, RAPIDO!”
Truly an international city. From the French to the Spanish, back to the French then to the Americans and now the Mexicans.
That’s gotta be some kind of wild fusion cuisine.
Just get it done now and avoid the confusion...send them to SA
“That’s gotta be some kind of wild fusion cuisine.”
Jambalaya with cumin, cilantro and chili powder.
You beat me to the punch. My take on it is you learn the language or you suffer the consequences. Anytime I get one of these "Press 1 for English" messages on the phone, the person who finally answers the phone gets to hear what I think of bilingualism in the US. I've seen the mess that makes and the additional expense is causes (e.g., in Canada) and, trust me, we don't want to go through that here.
Or etouffee with salsa and potatoes.
We’ll know it’s complete when dessert is a Beignet in a Bimbo package.
The solution is easy: You find one bilingual person and tell them that DNS is coming in and checking Green Cards. Before day’s end, all that will be left in the city are the same idiots who stayed the last time there was a flood.
Or one could simply yell, “Immigracion, amigos, vamanos!”
Whatever else you can say about these people, they are there because they are hard-working and have individual initiative.
I hardly think they will be as hard to evacuate as the previous tenants of the city, who seemed to expect that buses would pull up in front of their houses and nice men would carry them and their valuables to the buses and they would have nice shelters they would go to until it was over and the city rebuilt their homes and they could come back.
It's nice to see the city is at least thinking about actually evacuating people this time.
That’s too bad, because evacuating them to Mexico might make a lot of sense.
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