Reply #87: I agree that NOLA natives should get first crack at the jobs.

[Bridget Burke]

But this thread has prompted some posts dripping with toxic saliva.

"Cry racist all you want, a massive deportation is coming whether you like it or not. America's immune system is coming back on-line and we're not going to stop with just Bush, we're going to get rid of all of our illnesses and that includes all illegals, Mexican and otherwise." Purity now!

The workers aren't cowards, either.

(If "illegal immigrants" reported for the public service jobs you mentioned, they would be busted & deported. Allow these jobs as means to LEGAL immigration for those don't qualify for the limited slots now allowed? Perhaps--but that would prompt howls of "These jobs belong to AMURKINS!")