The answer to your questiong is “Yes, they were asked but were unwilling to work.” We personally know two New Orleans residents that work for us only in the winter when we bring our business down there that were hired for $700/week plus food that walked off the job after a day – too “smelly”. They are now residing in Red Cross-funded apartments with no jobs and no intentions of looking for one as long as the “government” is footing the bill.

That’s what chaps my hide. We don’t hire illegals. We go through the required checks and fill out the cute little I-9 form with ID info to prove that new hires are legal. Take a guess what happens to that verification work and the I-9 form. If you said that it all goes back into a file cabinet and is never, ever reviewed by anybody from the INS, you win the cigar.

We could hire illegals all day long if we wanted to do so, and the odds of getting caught are slim to none. Sleazy employers are banking on just that governmental abdication of responsibility.

Border control is essential, but along with that must come enforcement at the employer level. If the sleazy employers become afraid to hire illegals, then the incentive to swim the Rio Grande goes away.

When I read about the tsunami taking over the concerns of the African American, it highlighted something that has been on my mind for some time. So often, when there are discussions of affirmative action, blacks blow it off as of little consequence to whites, because they don’t realize the sheer enormity of the new numbers, now that so many groups are competing for a slice of that finite pie.

Illegal immigration hurts blacks AND new immigrants significantly. Leaders of both groups promote it simply to enlarge their power base, but they do so at the expense of their people.

….In his book, Vaca describes the demographic wave overtaking black America as “the Latino tsunami” that will alter minority politics. The new axioms of power, he writes, are that Latinos outnumber African Americans, that they will compete for jobs and resources, that Latinos have their own history of oppression, and, most pointedly, that “because Latinos are not responsible for the plight of African Americans, they come to the table with a clear conscience.”

….Hyperbolic, perhaps, but the pattern is plain to Hutchinson. “The vibrant new ethnic group in America are Hispanics,” he said, while the interests of African Americans “are falling by the wayside.”

I also asked him about a government entity supporting what I thought was an illegal activity. He says that the day labor site is available to any citizen, and that they do not make any determination about the legality or illegality of those who seek work there….How’s that for avoiding reality?

I asked how easy it would be for me son to get a job(he’s very fluent in Spanish), and he said that it actually might be difficult as employers far prefer Hispanics.He said that this is one of the reasons that the black unemployment rate did not lessen even with a surplus of jobs, as more Hispanics simply filled the void. Perhaps this is what happened in New Orleans….

I am with you on this one. I wondered why the guv’mint didn’t employ the evacuees. They would have been my first choice. It would give them something to do, as well as a paycheck. It makes perfect sense.

I dont doubt this report but it would be a lot more credible and useful if names were named. It seems to me this is a case where the Freedom of
Information Act could be employed successfully.Maybe a FOIA requesting names of ICE agents who employed food servers in New Orleans, the names of the food servers, and the proof of citzenship should be made. Im sure there are binding regulatios on the ICE agents not to do this.

Why shouldnt they lose thier jobs if they dont do them?

Now here is the clincher: if an officer of the law caught some one doing something illegal, the officer arrested the perp! Hey, I not kidding!

Furthermore, if the officer knowingly permitted or abetted the perp with the illegal act, the officer was in some deep doo-doo.

But that was then and this is now. I can still have my fond memories, can’t I?