Adam Nossiter of the New York Times offers "Day Laborers Are Easy Prey in New Orleans" (link), a discussion of illegal aliens in post-Katrina New Orleans being mugged because they carry cash. In the past, such articles may be a prelude to a push to let banks profit from illegal activity by opening accounts using the Matricula Consular card. However, in this case the goal seems to be just misguided liberalism:

the head-down laborers from Honduras, Mexico and Guatemala who work on the blazing hot roofs and inside the fetid homes for a wad of cash at the end of the day... ...The ruined homes they sometimes squat in, doubling- or quadrupling-up at night, are broken into, and they have been made to lie face down while being robbed...

The situation is so dire one wonders why the New York Times supported it happening in the first place. Yes, that's right: the NYT is complaining about a situation that they played a small role in helping bring about. Others did more; see the 'illegal aliens" tag at that site as well as this and this for those who whined about illegal aliens working in unsafe conditions for low pay and the like all the while supporting it.

The pro-American solution would have been to employ the residents to rebuild their own city and to prevent the Mexican government from establishing yet another profit center in the U.S., even using make-work programs (a la the stimulus bill) if necessary. Needless to say, the NYT did not even consider that pro-American plan.