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September 09, 2005
 
 

Katrina Victims Find Illegal Aliens Depressing Wages, Filling Jobs Already


"The one-day job fair here attracted about 3,000 Hurricane Katrina evacuees settling into Dallas. It also enticed a few local unemployed residents, some of whom worry that the inflow of new workers will intensify competition for work in an area where jobs -- particularly in low-skill sectors -- are already tough to come by," the Washington Post writes. "In Texas, those jobs -- mainly in hotels, restaurants, manufacturing and construction -- often are filled by the state's large population of first-generation immigrants from Mexico, he said. 'In south Texas there is a large overhang of temporary and permanent immigrants, so there will be competition there,' he said. 'The pay level won't be as good as what [people from New Orleans] are used to,' he said."

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