José L. Garcia, right, and fellow workers originally from the Mexican state of Michoacán get $10 for every refrigerator they throw out.
I thought the $62 billion authorized by Congress for Hurricane Katrina relief stipulated that local people would get first priority on jobs? Now, out of state speculators are hiring cheap, and illegal labor to increase their profits and leaving locals seething!
In Louisiana, Worker Influx Causes Ill Will
"Near this speck on the map southwest of New Orleans, where an oil refinery spouts flames into the sky and alligators are said to lurk in the green canals, sits something that is causing consternation across Louisiana: a camp for out-of-state workers cleaning up after the flood.
The camp, operated by a New York company called LVI Services, is not much to look at: a row of tractor-trailers crammed with bunks, a long line of portable toilets, a couple of R.V.'s and three tents with striped roofs. Gun-packing guards wear black T-shirts reading, "Police."
It is a temporary home for hundreds of LVI's workers, some of whom said they were in the United States illegally. They are commuting into New Orleans, swabbing the mold off walls, ripping the guts out of buildings, removing mountains of soggy debris.
And they are stirring up resentment".
José L. Garcia, right, and fellow workers originally from the Mexican state of Michoacán get $10 for every refrigerator they throw out.
I thought the $62 billion authorized by Congress for Hurricane Katrina relief stipulated that local people would get first priority on jobs? Now, out of state speculators are hiring cheap, and illegal labor to increase their profits and leaving locals seething!
In Louisiana, Worker Influx Causes Ill Will
