Illegal alien Hispanics residing in the Crescent City are full of complaints about the place they chose to occupy after Hurricane Katrina three years ago in pursuit of dollars [Immigrants reshape post-disaster New Orleans, Google-AP, Dec 23, 2008].

“Life is hard here, harder than any place I’ve been in the U.S.,” said Jose Campos, 37, who came here from El Salvador, by way of Florida. He pedaled his bicycle to Unique Grocery, a cavernous establishment off Bourbon Street that offers the wire service through bulletproof glass and tall-boy beers from icy bins.

Get on home, Jose. There’s a comfy seat awaiting you on ICE Air, the one-way airline that repatriates illegal foreigners.

Further on, this New Orleans immigration update contains some dreary statistics about the battered city.

In the three years since Hurricane Katrina, immigrant laborers drawn to the construction and service industry jobs created by the storm have transformed this rebuilding city. In an accelerated version of the already rapid Latino migration to the South, they are forging their own support networks, establishing businesses, packing churches and starting families — a process that usually takes a decade or more.

“There’s no place in the world like New Orleans in terms of how rapid the population change has been,” said Margie McHugh,  [email her] co-director of immigration integration policy at the Migration Policy Institute, a nonpartisan think-tank in Washington D.C. [...]

Since Katrina, the Hispanic population of New Orleans has risen from 15,000, or 3.3 percent of the pre-storm population, to 50,000, 15.2 percent of the current population, according to the New Orleans Economic Development office.

A 2006 study by Tulane University and the University of California, Berkeley, found that nearly half the rebuilding work force was Latino. Fifty-four percent were working illegally in the United States, and nearly 90 percent of illegal workers lived in the U.S. before coming to town.

The foreign males came to make mucho dollars, then brought in the baby-makers. Now the American taxpayer is forced to fund the mini-population boom of Hispanic jackpot babies in New Orleans.

Beyond the statistics, there are the offices of Dr. Kevin Work, who has forged a business by delivering a generation of Latino children to the city: “Thirty to forty deliveries a month,” he says. [...]

The year before Katrina, Emergency Medicaid expenses were $1.7 million in metro New Orleans. It was the common childbirth benefit used by recent immigrants, but provided no prenatal care. This year the program expanded to include prenatal care and five times as many patients, ballooning costs to $7.8 million.

Subsidized medical care is another cost of “cheap” labor.

Add to that the expense of increasing social pathology (e.g. drugs, alcoholism, crime) that arises from a growing foreign population with no roots in the community. Pricey programs designed for the specific ethnic group tend to appear rapidly.

In response, the organization has established yet another Hispanic outreach in New Orleans, this one to educate youth on the dangers of drugs.

“We have young people who have not seen their parents in five years,” said Italia Castillo Duran, who directs the effort. “We have parents who have one child here, and another back in their homeland.”

As usual, the taxpayer is supposed to fix the endless problems caused by the behavior of the illegal aliens themselves.

Here’s a food update from New Orleans, and they’re talking about tacos, not gumbo or boudin.

NEW ORLEANS - For proof that Hurricane Katrina is transforming the ethnic flavor of New Orleans — and creating altogether new tensions — look no further than the taco trucks.
The trucks are a common sight in barrios from Los Angeles to New York, but controversial in a city still adapting to a threefold increase in Hispanics since Katrina. [ Katrina brought a wave of Hispanics , By JOHN MORENO GONZALES, Associated Press, July 3, 2007]

The city is becoming Nuevo Orleans, as forecast by Mexicans who like the idea of taking over another American city. They have arrived and are cranking out jackpot babies to get family citizenship and easy access to welfare benefits

Jesse Jackson’s high-profile visit with Mexican Presidente Vicente Fox last summer over the racist stamp imbroglio looked suspiciously like a ploy to maintain the Rev.’s viability in the future Mexicanized America. Surely the reconquista brain trust would need a reliable professional Negro to keep pushing the “rainbow coalition” baloney to blacks not bright enough to see the rip-off.

As an ethnic wheeler-dealer whose stock is falling, Jesse appeared a little too anxious to please the Mexicans, as he quickly announced the need for a new coalition between blacks and Hispanics, though he had little to show for his trouble: he couldn’t even pry a proper apology out of Fox for the earlier comment that Mexicans would do work even blacks wouldn’t touch. The Rev. looked weak, but kept on plugging anyway.

So Jesse’s recent bus round-up of far-flung Katrina-displaced blacks to New Orleans for the purpose of claiming reconstruction jobs required extra finesse not to upset his Mexican associates. (Up to 80,000 New Orleaneans are living in shelters around the country, many of whom are destitute and need jobs.) He had to appear concerned with the well-being of black Americans without speaking ill of Mexican illegals who are swarming over the employment free-for-all like ants at a picnic:

Lured by jobs paying $15 to $17 an hour, the Spanish-speaking day laborers have flooded into New Orleans to haul out debris, clear downed trees, put in drywall and perform other tasks as rebuilding takes hold in the city. Specialized roofers can make $300 a day. ["Immigrants Rush to New Orleans as Contractors Fight for Workers" LA Times, 10/10/05]

Jesse was not at his smoothest when quizzed on Lou Dobbs Tonight (10/11) after the bus caravan’s arrival in New Orleans:

And so when Mr. Bush put forth a federal bailout on the state’s terms and gave no bid contracts and suspended the building wages, they began to recruit workers from Central America. They didn’t just like invade us, workers from Honduras, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Maquiladora. Those workers were recruited because they could make them — let them work on the prevailing wages without health insurance.

See? According to Jesse, job-thieving illegal aliens are innocent victims, and there’s no invasion stealing us blind and destroying everything we value.

And cartographers haven’t located the country of Maquiladora just yet…

Over at la Times in Los Angeles, a Mexophile columnist is already cheering the cultural loss of New Orleans to Hispanic illegals arriving to “help.” (Cajuns and other Louisianans are capable of making even French sound good in their wonderful musical tradition, but adding large numbers of Mexicans to the unique culture would be putting arsenic in the gumbo.)

NO MATTER WHAT ALL the politicians and activists want, African Americans and impoverished white Cajuns will not be first in line to rebuild the Katrina-ravaged Gulf Coast and New Orleans. Latino immigrants, many of them undocumented, will. And when they’re done, they’re going to stay, making New Orleans look like Los Angeles. It’s the federal government that will have made the transformation possible, further exposing the hollowness of the immigration debate. ["La Nueva Orleans" LA Times, 9/25,05]

President Bush has already greased the skids for Mexicans by suspending Davis-Bacon (which requires government contractors to pay prevailing wage) and halting sanctions for employers who hire “undocumented” workers. Even in the most serious national situations, Bush always gives advantage to Mexicans over Americans, and Katrina is no exception.

El Presidente Fox is licking his big wolfish chops at the New Orleans suffering, and could hardly wait for Katrina’s winds to die down before he was pushing Mexican workers, whom he sees as obedient remittance senders (with the amount likely topping $20 billion this year).

Thanks to House member Charlie Norwood who told Vicente Fox what he could do with his workers from the scab nation, remarking “We should not allow our national tragedy to become Mexico’s gain.”

Amen, brother!