Reply #29: I posted about this the other day. While there was a lot of talk re [View All]

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Davis Bacon getting suspended, the suspension of immigration-enforcement sanctions didn't receive the same attention.

"FYI - not only did BushCo suspend Davis Bacon, they also suspended
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immigration-enforcement sanctions.

I somehow missed this when Bush did it. I did hear Lou Dobbs (who else would) mention it tonight on his show and I was surprised this hadn't been a bigger deal.



Illegal aliens build new life among ruin

By JAY ROOT and AARON C. DAVIS
KNIGHT RIDDER NEWSPAPERS

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Welcome to the post-Katrina Gulf Coast, the nation's latest immigration magnet.

Lured here by the promise of fat paychecks and an emergency federal decree temporarily suspending immigration-enforcement sanctions, they sleep in tents, crowded hotel rooms and sometimes even in parking lots. They're hauling trash and cutting trees, fastening tarps to damaged roofs and tearing out wet Sheetrock from thousands of soaked buildings.

It started out as a trickle. But over time, Hurricane Katrina has unleashed a flood of immigrants - some legal, some not - into coastal communities from Florida, Texas, California, North Carolina and other immigrant-rich states.

Many are natives of Mexico or Central America, but some come from as far away as Brazil. Hundreds of Latino immigrants could be found last week crammed into the Best Western in downtown New Orleans, where LVI Services, an environmental remediation company based in New York, was packing them in three and four to a room.

Hundreds more LVI workers were staying at a Shoney's Inn in nearby Metairie, said company representatives in New Orleans, who didn't want to be identified for fear of losing their jobs for talking to reporters. Calls placed to LVI weren't returned.

http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/12887684.htm

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x5109439

So the companies can't be punished. BushCo always takes care of his homies - the Corporations.