FYI - not only did BushCo suspend Davis Bacon, they also suspended

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immigration-enforcement sanctions.

I somehow missed this when Bush did it. I did hear Lou Dobbs (who else would) mention it tonight on his show and I was surprised this hadn't been a bigger deal.

Illegal aliens build new life among ruin

By JAY ROOT and AARON C. DAVIS
KNIGHT RIDDER NEWSPAPERS

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Welcome to the post-Katrina Gulf Coast, the nation's latest immigration magnet.

Lured here by the promise of fat paychecks and an emergency federal decree temporarily suspending immigration-enforcement sanctions, they sleep in tents, crowded hotel rooms and sometimes even in parking lots. They're hauling trash and cutting trees, fastening tarps to damaged roofs and tearing out wet Sheetrock from thousands of soaked buildings.

It started out as a trickle. But over time, Hurricane Katrina has unleashed a flood of immigrants - some legal, some not - into coastal communities from Florida, Texas, California, North Carolina and other immigrant-rich states.

Many are natives of Mexico or Central America, but some come from as far away as Brazil. Hundreds of Latino immigrants could be found last week crammed into the Best Western in downtown New Orleans, where LVI Services, an environmental remediation company based in New York, was packing them in three and four to a room.

Hundreds more LVI workers were staying at a Shoney's Inn in nearby Metairie, said company representatives in New Orleans, who didn't want to be identified for fear of losing their jobs for talking to reporters. Calls placed to LVI weren't returned.

http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/12887684.htm

The money these companies are going to pocket while paying the workers, legal and illegal, little $$$ is going to be enormous.

[sepia_steel]

1. I'm not surprised at all.

Whatever's cheap and makes his friends lots o cash.

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2. Wonder how the xenophobic freepers are taking the news? eom

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6. Hopefully, they find out because I think this issue is one that causes

a big split in the GOP - the business' that love the cheap labor of people who are in no position to question them or turn them in to any authorities for treating them badly, breaking the law, shabby business practices or work product, etc. v. the xenophobic freepers you are talking about above.

[Erika]

3. Bushco loves those cheap workers

they give his globalist buds higher profits.

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4. That is his true "religion".

[knowbody0]

5. this proves he's out of his fucking mind

the most moronic move since the approval of torture

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7. Sen. David Vitter (R) also missed this news items.

The Daily Show showed an interview with him and this guy was clueless on the DavisBacon act itself. He was bragging about all the money to be made in construction.

Sad.

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8. I know Sen. Landrieu and Gov. Blanco were unhappy with it. They

said it is exacerbating the problem of unemployment in the state - a big problem right now.

I've seen a few news segments showing how the companies refuse to let any of the employees speak to the news media.

One segment on CNN showed that at first the business managers said the media couldn't speak to the employees because of the language barrier. When the reporter said he speaks spanish, the Company guy just said - "you aren't talking to them".

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9. kick

[lonestarnot]

10. How are we ever going to fix what they have fucked up?