The only reason those “Spanish speakers” were able to be the construction saviors described here is because the government was doing everything it could to obstruct all the legitimate contractors who were trying to get in to the area to help. Being illegal, these guys were able to swell the ranks of the few local contractors and get the job done, while bypassing all the nonsense being piled on the out-of-staters.
Forget the out-of-staters. How about all those unemployed men who were ‘victims’ of Katrina?
Could they not have done the work that the Spanish speakers did, whether they were camped outdoors, living in trailers, or whatever for a few months?
Haley Barbour ping.