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 ...
That was my thought as well. They may be illegal, but they aren’t hopelessly disabled by the welfare state.
They can get thirty people in a mini-van. Think how many they can get on a bus! There is no problem.
at least they work.
many of the residents of nola don’t.
Sounds like a fun place!
evacuating=yell INS works every time.
Yell out “La migra, la migra!” They’ll book fast.
Shouldn’t the welfare of Mexican Nationals in ew Orleans be the concern of the Mexican Consulate?
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