the majority, or the vast majority, of people who will be cleaning and working to restore our destroyed cities and infrastructures.
After every disaster that strikes our country, the Latinos often here illegally pick up and go where the jobs are needed, and the cities and communities must be restored. This has been going on for decades, and one does not see all those Trump racists bitching about the illegals. They turn a blind eye and pretend that they must be here legally. I know that some of the people who vote Republican and hate “Illegals” have no qualms about hiring them to do their yards.
After Katrina destroyed New Orleans, they thought they could rebuild New Orleans with citizens from this country. It didn’t take them long to realize that Americans were not showing up to work.
JOHN BURNETT, BYLINE: There’s a statue in a riverfront park in New Orleans that depicts, in marble and bronze, a construction worker with a hammer clambering up a pitched roof – its title, “Tribute To Latin American Workers.” It’s dedicated to the laborers who helped rebuild the city after Hurricane Katrina. Andy Kopplin, former executive director of the Louisiana Recovery Authority, says back-to-back hurricanes – Katrina and Rita – damaged a quarter million houses.
ANDY KOPPLIN: And we didn’t have enough roofers, carpenters, plumbers, electricians or laborers to fix them all at once. And so we couldn’t have rebuilt without help from outside the state of Louisiana, and we got it from the thousands of Latin American workers who came to New Orleans and South Louisiana and help us rebuild.
BURNETT: Today, Southwest Florida is where New Orleans was in September of 2005 and where Houston was in September of 2017 after Hurricane Harvey. In Florida, thousands of homes and businesses will need rebuilding. But first, who’s going to drag out the sodden, reeking, moldy furnishings?
