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"Graphic Queen" <xxx.xxx@xxx.xxx.com> wrote in message
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> hurricane katrina's aftermath
> Foreign workers feel left in limbo
> By Ian Urbina
> The New York Times
>
> Biloxi, Miss. - Like so many other people in Biloxi, Pedro, a
> landscaper from Chiapas, Mexico, is desperately trying to get out of
> town. He wants to take his wife, Anna, eight months pregnant,
> someplace cleaner and safer, wherever that might be.
>
> But aside from being low on gas like everyone else, Pedro, who would
> not give his last name because he is undocumented, is nervous about
> traveling in a city swarming with police officers and National Guard
> troops.
>
> Bran Dize, a prep cook from Spanish Town, Jamaica, near Kingston,
> worries that Hurricane Katrina may suddenly have made him an illegal
> immigrant because, he said, his guest worker visa requires him to work
> at a casino that, for all practical purposes, no longer exists.
>
> Katrina has left its victims feeling vulnerable and uncertain, but for
> many noncitizens trapped here, the anxiety is especially acute.
>
> There are worries, too, about those who may not have survived the
> storm. Mexico has opened two mobile consulates in the affected areas,
> one in Mobile, Ala., and the other in Baton Rouge, La., to begin
> looking for tens of thousands of its citizens reported missing. The
> authorities in Mexico estimated that 145,000 Mexicans live in the
> area. There also are an estimated 130,000 Hondurans.
> Much like the immigrants, the city of Biloxi, defined over the past
> century by its transient culture of summer vacationers, sailors and
> gamblers, is at a standstill. Boats have been washed ashore. The
> number of visitors has dropped to zero from a stream that averaged 10
> million a year. The floating casinos have sunk. And movement is
> difficult.
>
> Jose, a Chiapas native, was among many immigrants who came as cheap
> labor to help rebuild Biloxi after Hurricane Ivan in September 2004.
> "If I get a chance to get out of here, I'm going," he said. "This is
> all I know."
>
Good. All you illegal alien bastards take you clots of children and go home.

Hank