Mayor Ray Nagin's comments about mexican workers

[KingFlorez]

http://www.hispanicbusiness.com/news/newsbyid.asp?id=26340&cat=Hispanic+PR+Wire&more=/hprw/

Now I don't really know how to percieve this.

[waiting for hope]

1. Didn't you know

that Nagin was a Repug before he ran for Mayor - he only changed parties because New Orleans is predominately Democrat.

[Lannes]

2. If he said "illegal Mexican workers"

Then I agree with him.There were 500k Americans who lost their jobs because of Katrina.If he said "Mexican workers" who are here legally then he is flat out wrong.

Thats why Bush suspended Davis Bacon so that corporations could benefit from the cheapest workers available who tend tend to be illegal.

[cdsilv]

3. IF they are here illegally, they should not be employed.

Rule of Law.

The US citizens who live in or return to NO should be employed to
rebuild the city. Period.

People who are in this country illegally should not be eligible for employment doing anything at all.

I don't care if they are willing to do work 'americans' don't want to do.

Believe me, I'm a US citizen by birth and I've done some really shitty jobs (garbageman, pump jockey, programmer, system engineer)....

[rwheeler31]

7. Thank you

This is such a sad story. I can't figure out Naggin.

[rwheeler31]

4. I have no idea what the Mayor said.

Do any of you have a clue?

[KingFlorez]

5. He said

He needed to 'make sure that New Orleans is not overrun by Mexican workers,’

[KingFlorez]

6. Looking more closely at the comment

I don't see it as racist, I just think there is a perception that all mexicans take jobs from american citizens. It's not a good perception, but it does make me angry to see illegals get work over top of Americans in need of a job and who are willing to work hard. All in all, it's not a racist comment, it just show frustration over the immigrant problem.

[UTUSN]

8. He Gets a Lot of Defense Here Just Because He Carries the Dem Label

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagin

Before his election, Nagin was a member of the Republican Party and had little political experience; he was a vice president and general manager at Cox Communications, a cable communications company and subsidiary of Cox Enterprises. Nagin did give contributions periodically to candidates, namely President George W. Bush and former Republican U.S. Representative Billy Tauzin in 1999 and 2000, as well as to Democratic U.S. Senators John Breaux and J. Bennett Johnston earlier in the decade.

Days before filing for the New Orleans Mayoral race in February 2002, Nagin switched his party registration to the Democratic Party. Shortly before the primary election, an endorsement praising Nagin as a reformer by Gambit Magazine gave him crucial momentum that would carry through for the primary election and runoff. In the first round of the crowded mayoral election in February 2002, Nagin received first place with 29% of the vote, against such opponents as Police Chief Richard Pennington, State Senator Paulette Irons, City Councilman Troy Carter and others. In the runoff with Pennington in May 2002, Nagin won with 59% of the vote. His campaign was largely self-financed.

Shortly after taking office, Nagin launched an anti-corruption campaign within city government, which included crackdowns on the city's Taxicab Bureau and Utilities Department. Nagin also made a controversial endorsement of current Republican U.S. Representative Bobby Jindal in the 2003 Louisiana Gubernatorial Runoff over current Democratic Governor Kathleen Blanco, and only reluctantly endorsed U.S. Senator John Kerry in the 2004 Presidential race.

Nagin received a B.S. degree in accounting from Tuskegee University in 1978 and an M.B.A. degree from Tulane University in 1994. He and his wife, Seletha Smith Nagin, have three children: Jeremy, Jarin, and Tianna.

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[No Exit]

9. NAGIN used to be a REPUBLICAN.

He changed his label so he could run for mayor of N.O.