Regardless, illegals or not, there is going to be a alot of skilled and trade work that has to be done on the Gulf Coast. If you are unemployed in some place like Michigan or Pennsylvania, where democrats have killed any economic growth, I suggest you move to New Orleans or at least temporarily relocate there. You will be working for the next 3 years.
The headlines in the Mobile Register yesterday was complaining about the labor shortage here and in the region.
My youngest brother told me he was offered a job towing travel trailers (using his truck) from Hattiesburg, Miss to Biloxi, Miss, hooking up to the drain, electricity and water = $,1,000.00 each.(All hook-up parts are supplied)
He estimated that he and one helper could do three a day. His present boss told him he could have a leave-of-absence to take advantage of that offer.