As Biloxi rises from the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, it is doing much of it on the backs of undocumented foreign workers. Some are starting to suggest that their contributions are worth at least a temporary visa.Previously: "Give Illegal Aliens' Jobs to Unemployed Katrina Victims".
"If we are working and helping to raise this city, at least they should give us a work visa," said Manuel Armenta, a 44-year-old Mexican who came to Biloxi five months ago to do cleaning work at a hotel...
So far, there's been little risk [of getting deported]. The Department of Homeland Security has announced a 45-day period in which employers would not be fined for hiring undocumented workers. It said that was because many people had lost their proof of citizenship or legal residence in the storm...
Posted to Immigration2005b at September 13, 2005 03:00 PM
This looks like another way for officials to intensify racial conflict. When minority evacuees come back and find that the illegals have taken their jobs, they will get violent. American officials will try anything they can get away with to light fuses of conflict like this. It's their only chance of getting dictatorship, now that all the world knows that radical socialism is pure malice.
Posted by: John S Bolton at September 14, 2005 01:24 AM
Rebuilding New Orleans is about to become one of those well-known "jobs that Americans won't do."
Posted by: D Flinchum at September 14, 2005 03:02 PM
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