… with this:

Illegal immigrants helping to rebuild this shattered city are working in hazardous conditions without protective gear and earning far less than their legal counterparts, a study says.

That’s how the article starts. It just gets worse from there.

Nearly one-third of the illegal immigrants interviewed by researchers reported working with harmful substances and in dangerous conditions, while 19 percent said they were not given any protective equipment, according to the study by professors at Tulane University and the University of California at Berkeley.

Illegal immigrants also were paid significantly less — if at all [If at all??? Jim] — earning on average $10 per hour, compared with $16.50 for documented workers, the study said.

But the worst, at least to me, is this:

“What is fundamentally unfair is these are workers who have responded to a national priority to rebuild this city and yet whose rights are being violated,” said Laurel Fletcher, director of Berkeley’s International Human Rights Law Clinic and one of the study’s co-authors.

No. No. No. It is not those who have come to New Orleans illegally, and those who are employing them in violation of the law who are having their rights violated, it is the American people, and the people of New Orleans. I don’t mean to imply that I think these people should be abused, exposed to hazards, or harmed. I simply mean that they should not be here at all!

The article asserts that these illegal aliens are, “now the backbone of the reconstruction”.

That’s just so wrong.

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