Post-Katrina, New Orleans coming back more Hispanic | csmonitor.com

“Manuel Garsa sits on a curb of a downtown Shell station waiting for work. He’s one of some two dozen day laborers, mostly Hispanic, who amble among customers filling up their cars.

A Toyota Sequoia with Florida plates pulls up, and he runs over to investigate.

“The people come just for them,” complains Joseph James, an African-American day laborer and a native New Orleanian. “They don’t take blacks. They don’t take whites. You are standing right there. You are right in front of them, and they need 10 people. And they won’t pick you.”"

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