[IP] Illegals, not poor evacuees, to rebuild New Orleans

[David Farber <dave@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: Suzanne Johnson <sjohnson@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: October 15, 2005 12:10:39 AM EDT
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Fwd: For IP?: Illegals, not poor evacuees, to rebuild New  
Orleans


> (sent by  John Reece <reece@xxxxxxxxx>)
>
> Here's another foreign vs. native worker issue.   Seems contractors
> are almost exclusively recruiting the undocumented to rebuild New  
> Orleans:
>
> http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/10/12/ 
> MNG53F74SK1.DTL
>
> Other articles cite wages of $15-17 hour.  This begs a question I  
> have yet to see
> the media ask:  what happened to all those black New Orleans  
> residents too poor to afford
> transportation out of town we heard so much about a few weeks  
> ago?   The contractors
> are advertising on Univision.   What about BET (Black Entertainment  
> Television)????
>
> JR


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