Shocking “News”: Immigrant Workers Exploited in Reconstruction of Gulf After Katrina

http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/nation/12/23katrinalabor.html

Katrina jobs expose plight of day laborers: Immigrants doing the dirty work in cleanup subject to exploitation and risk deportation

By Jonathan Tilove
NEWHOUSE NEWS SERVICE
Friday, December 23, 2005

NEW ORLEANS – Day laborer Edgar Antonio was getting his jobs in the parking lot of the Shell station at Robert E. Lee Circle, where on a recent morning he wondered about his place in America.

Since shortly after Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast, the 26-year-old Honduran had done America’s dirtiest work, cleaning this city’s muck- and mold-caked schools and offices and gutting its fetid houses.

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KJ