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“The economic and social entrenchment of this current wave of immigrants will certainly create intense policy debates around immigrant rights and privileges. The subsidizing of education and healthcare as well as the issuing of drivers’ licenses will certainly be issues that our future mayoral, gubernatorial and city council candidates will face in the years ahead. Many of the current disputes around immigrant rights and immigration bubbled after September 11 and surfaced during the passage of the 2004 Intelligence Reform Bill. However in New Orleans, the noticeable demographic shifts due to Katrina pose more cultural and linguistic threats to the longstanding racial and ethnic hierarchy.
Most of our angst is directed at suspected illegal immigrants or undocumented residents who are working on our roofs and cleaning our Mardi Gras spoiled hotel rooms. We quietly applaud their work, but feel chest pain when we have to communicate with them in a restaurants or stores. Most if not all of these strangers were quickly absorbed in the new labor market created by Katrina.”
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