Has Katrina Hurt Us & Helped the Bush Amnesty?

[Dowple]

Just a question for fellow posters concerned about immigration. I don't have an article or link to bounce this off of. But I can't help but get the uneasy feeling that we have lost a huge amount of momentum on the issue of illegals since Katrina hit. Illegals were close to being the top issue, with states of emergency being declared in several states and pressure for it others. Now look. It's all New Orleans this, New Orleans that. Schwarzenegger has been able to skate on the demand for an emergency and Rick Perry ducked the issue by importing 370,000 of Jesse Jackson's constituents into his state and pimping for "humanitarian of the year". Is the pressure for border control and removing illegals disappearing? Is Bush going to use Katrina to go all "compassionate" on us and back door his amnesty with a Katrina relief package, as he appears to have already started by exempting employers from requiring legal workplace documenation from new hires in the "hurricane zones", which themselves are becoming bigger and bigger? First Mississippi, then NO, and now the entire east coast.

[Kathy29]

God I hope not. We need to close those borders before Katrina is the best of it.

[Beowulf]

I hope this isn't the case but since Bush panders to Mexico, I don't doubt he would. Not what I voted for!!:flame:

[shawnwood]

With all those homeless, jobless people coming out of New Orleans, it kinds kills the arguement that the illegals are needed to do the jobs that Americans do not want. Seems to me that we have plenty of Americans that can do that work now. Kick out the illegals and tend to our own is what I think.

[nene]

IMO, the immigration issue is MORE important than dealing with the results of Katrina.