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October 19, 2005
Illegal Aliens Making $300 A Day In La Nueva Orleans The New Orleans Times Picayune has more coverage today about the influx of illegal alien laborers working on reconstruction McCain Criticizes Enforcement Approach to Illegal Immigration "As the Bush administration began promoting a guest worker program for immigrants, Sens. John McCain and Edward Kennedy Myers, Cuban Exile Steam Through Confirmation Hearing for Top DHS Jobs "Senators Tuesday had few questions for a Cuban exile from Miami who was a top Bush Promises Border Action, Pushes Guestworker Plan "President Bush, seeking to deal with what critics inside and outside of |
jobs in Louisiana. "The huge influx of Hispanic laborers has some officials, Mayor Ray Nagin among them, worried about New Orleans' changing demographics and wondering why more of their jobs haven't gone to locals. . . Most [workers] are Latino. Indeed, on similar jobs throughout the hurricane-ravaged region, a majority of the workers are Latino, primarily coming from Texas," the paper reports. "On many days, I'm making more than $300," one illegal worker said. "I'm going to stay about one month more, and I'll have made a lot of money here."
urged Congress to include provisions for illegal immigrants to stay in the country . . . Any plan that would deport illegal immigrants before allowing them to apply for a guest worker program is unrealistic, said McCain, R-Ariz., who has introduced a temporary worker bill with Kennedy," the AP reports. "'Somebody is going to have to explain how that is workable,' McCain said of a bill that would deport illegal immigrants. 'My friends, that's not what the lady who holds the lamp beside the golden door is all about.'"
Latin America policy advisor in the Bush administration and is now on the verge of becoming director of the U.S. Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services," the Miami Herald reports. "Only three senators attended the confirmation hearing for Gonzalez and two other nominees: Julie Myers to head Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and James O'Gara to be deputy director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy." Debbie Schlussel 
Washington say is out-of-control illegal immigration, yesterday promised tough action to secure the country's borders as administration officials outlined a plan to allow illegal immigrants living here and foreign workers to work in the United States for as long as six years before returning home permanently," the Washington Post reports. "Earlier in the day, Labor Secretary Elaine L. Chao and Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff provided the Senate Judiciary Committee with the most detailed explanation to date of the administration's plan to create a temporary worker program."