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A New Spice in the Gumbo
Will Latino day laborers locating in New Orleans change its complexion?

Misty Keasler for Newsweek

By Arian Campo-Flores
Newsweek
Dec. 5, 2005 issue - Only one day after Hurricane Katrina tore through the Gulf Coast, Tranquilino Jimenez already had a job offer. An undocumented immigrant from Mexico, he set off from his home in Mobile, Ala., to join a convoy of 80 other workers hired to rip out soggy carpets and tear down Sheetrock from Biloxi, Miss., to Port Arthur, Texas. He eventually settled in New Orleans, where he's cleaning up schools in St. Bernard Parish, east of the city. Earning $12 per hour, Jimenez, 40, works 10 hours a day, seven days a week, retiring at night to a dingy motel room crammed with four other Latino laborers. Asked how long he plans to stay in New Orleans, he replies, "As long as there's work."

Jimenez is one of thousands of Hispanicsâ€â€

This is how we are losing our country! They are taking over by shear numbers and changing everything about America!

I am sick of it! I just had "America for Americans" printed on my checks as a way of protest! I hope businesses that I write checks to get the drift!