Thread: Si Habla Español

I was talking to my niece and nephews grandmother today and was telling her about the workers from Mobile being sent home because the "Mexicans are here.' She told me about a woman that had contracted to have her roof replaced after the hurricane -- the roofers were Mexican, but I don't know if they were subs or what.

Any way, as the woman walked out of her house the Mexicans were grinning and speaking Spanish, unfortunately for them Si Habla Españo --- they said "here comes the bitch." To their surprise she responded to their insult in Spanish and informed them real quick she was not a "bitch" and told them to get the hell off her roof, pack up their stuff and leave and not come back!

I speak enough Spanish to understand a large amount of it...always makes for a good suprise--LOL.

Anyway---did you know that Homeland Security and INS were ORDERED NOT TO ENFORCE IMMIGRATION LAWS in the Hurricane Katrina corridor?

This so the illegals could be used for reconstruction at $16 plus per hour---I'll try to find the link for you ASAP

Good for her. God hasn't it been enough to go through all that and now this too?

Good for her!

I heard a report that many roofs aren't being repaired to specs and won't withstand future storms ... or maybe even small puffs of wind.

I know a career roofing contractor who says he is being driven out of business by the Hispanics who have invaded his town and are suddenly in the roofing business.

Originally Posted by ThomasMoore

t Homeland Security and INS were ORDERED NOT TO ENFORCE IMMIGRATION LAWS in the Hurricane Katrina corridor?

This so the illegals could be used for reconstruction at $16 plus per hour---I'll try to find the link for you ASAP

is this the jobs the American people won't do? I'm sure there were PLENTY of Americans that could have worked for $16 plus per hour ....

I helped roof our house when I was a teenager . . . I was pretty good at it too. After my cousins left, it was just my dad, my uncle and me -- they said I did pretty good, I could pop the roofing nail in with one blow!

My husband said foreman had to follow all those Mexicans around while they worked there....he was there with the National Guard.....

I've also heard their work is shoddy.

Originally Posted by moosetracks

I've also heard their work is shoddy.

the contractor that did my sisters roof had some Mexicans -- they used a nailgun and put holds in her roof --- it leaked and they had to come back and REDO the roof -- that saved a lot of money

A couple of weeks ago I was in the grocery store (I'm in an occupied zone) and the cashier and customer before me in line were talking in Spanish, no English is spoken there unless required. I wasn't listening because that's not polite and I was reading something... I caught the last sentence of the conversation with laughter and them looking at me.... "but the white man will never figure that out". I stared the customer straight in the eye and then the cashier. The laughter stopped and we were just looking at each other. I was about to say something but the customer turned and walked out. Good thing, he was a lot bigger than me. Spanish is not hard to understand, especially when you are the butt of the joke.

Migrants Find a Gold Rush in New Orleans
Word spread to Latino laborers as Katrina’s floodwaters ebbed: There is work with good money and no questions about papers.
By Sam Quinones, Times Staff Writer
April 4, 2006
NEW ORLEANS � As the floodwaters of Hurricane Katrina receded in September, roads filled with residents leaving the city, their cars, SUVs and moving vans jammed with what they had salvaged of their lives.

But another mass movement was taking place on the other sides of the highways.
Thousands of men from Mexico and Central America were driving into the city. Word had spread throughout the Latino immigrant diaspora in America that the city had plenty of work, construction wages had doubled to $16 an hour and no one was asking for papers.

“It was like a Gold Rush,” said Oscar Calanche, a Guatemalan immigrant who lived in New Orleans before the storm and returned as soon as the waters receded. “In one car there’d be three up front and three or four in the back, with suitcases and tools on top. It looked like a river of people from our countries.”

Latino workers have gutted, roofed and painted houses and hauled away garbage, debris and downed trees. Undocumented workers have installed trailers to house returning evacuees at New Orleans City Park, their pay coming from FEMA subcontractors.

“It’s all illegals doing this work,” said Rey Mendez, a FEMA trailer subcontractor from Honduras.

No one knows how many Latino immigrants are here, but John Logan, a Brown University demographer who has studied the city since Katrina, says “there must be 10,000 to 20,000 immigrant workers in the region by now, and the number is going to grow.”

As the Senate debates new immigration laws and marchers demonstrate across the country, these immigrants offer another reminder of the country’s reliance on undocumented labor from Latin America.

As New Orleans redefines itself after Katrina, the influx of large numbers of Latino immigrants is another jolt for a city that has historically thought of itself as black and white.

“It’s all illegals doing this work,” said Rey Mendez, a FEMA trailer subcontractor from Honduras.

is there any doubt that the federal government is overthrowing the citizens and the states?