New Orleans-area Honduran residents have extra burden

“”I don’t know where to go,” Medina, 67, said in Spanish. “I heard FEMA has trailers for us in Mississippi, but how would I get there?”

She’s one of an estimated 80,000 Hondurans who were living among the 1.3 million residents of greater New Orleans when Katrina hit. Three months later, many Hondurans say language barriers, fear of deportation and confusion over the relief process make life difficult.”

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