Posted on 04/26/2006 7:51:46 AM PDT by Ellesu
Katrina welcome mat threadbare; lawmaker drafting ouster bill:
HOUSTON -- The crowd gathered inside a west Houston high school auditorium to hear from their congressman was already aggrieved over issues ranging from illegal immigration to road building when the topic turned, as it often does these days in Houston, to the estimated 150,000 evacuees from Hurricane Katrina still living in the city.
"I am getting fed up with the criminals and troublemakers from New Orleans," Rep. John Culberson (R-Texas) told constituents last week. "We're certainly ready for those people to go home as soon as possible."
"Send 'em home," echoed someone in the audience, to rising applause.
Across town, in one of the low-rent apartment complexes where some of the displaced New Orleans families landed, residents say they are often greeted by ugly graffiti bearing similar messages. Students from New Orleans complain of being ridiculed by peers and teachers. And some evacuees say they have been turned down for jobs based on their distinctive New Orleans accent.
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
The congressman said he is drafting a bill to establish a "one-strike rule" that would immediately deport criminal offenders from New Orleans back to their home city.
"I have heard story after story from constituents who have had terrible problems with out-of-control kids from Louisiana schools, with people who are perfectly able to work but refuse to work because they have been receiving government assistance ever since they arrived," Culberson said. "There has been plenty of time for them to get back on their feet."
Hmmm lets see,
150,000 Katrina evacuees
Million illegal aliens...
Difficult decision, who gets all the goodies?
When will illegal alien fatigue set in? It has for majority of Americans already!
"We're certainly ready for those people to go home as soon as possible."
About 3 days into a visit by the in-laws I am thinking exactly the same thing.
I have to laugh at the line "perfectly able to work but refuse to work because they have been receiving government assistance ever since they arrived" because even before the hurricane these people refuse to work and were receiving government assistance, this all started around 1964.
WHAT! No legal status for the N.O. evacuees? Wait one cotton pickin minute...The illegal trouble makers from Mexico are OK to stay, but N.O. trouble makers need to go home?!...go figure!
Hmmm...
Katrina evacuees doing the crime and troublemaking that Houstonians refuse to do.
Massachusetts had no trouble getting 3,000 Katrina refugees out of Camp Edwards. But then winter was setting in.
If you had two people, equally qualified, for a job of any kind, would you make a call based on how hard it was to understand the applicant talking, especially if the job involved interaction with customers or outside vendors?
And if you choose to look at the worst implication in this sentence, it would be that employers have a negative conceptualization of people from New Orleans. Why would that be?
"What we found out is that there was some small portion of the evacuees here who were in gangs, sold drugs and preyed on their neighbors, and they transferred that activity here," said Frank Michel, White's communications director. "But it's not out of proportion with any population of 150,000 people."
So criminality is spread equally among any group of 150,000 people chosen from anywhere in the U.S.
Anyone who believes this is too stupid to leave the house, or too dishonest and condescending to belong in government.
BTW - John Culberson is awesome. I wish he were my rep.
If 238 homicides is a 25% increase of the same period a year earlier, that calculates to 190 homicides for that earlier period, therefore an increase of 48 homicides over the earlier period. If 17% of the slayings in the latter period involved NO evacuees, that makes them responsible for 40 out of those 48 homicides.
"What we found out is that there was some small portion of the evacuees here who were in gangs, sold drugs and preyed on their neighbors, and they transferred that activity here," said Frank Michel, White's communications director. "But it's not out of proportion with any population of 150,000 people."
The murder side of it doesn't look "proportional" to me. When you consider that Houston proper (not "greater Houston") has a population of about 2,000,000 (I use this figure since the murder statistics are for Houston proper and not the greater metropolitan area), and 198 of the murders were committed by non-NO evacuees during the latter period, that is about 1 murder per 10,100 citizens. At that rate, the 150,000 NO evacuees would proportionally commit about 15 homicides, but instead they committed 40. And where you find people that are willing to commit murder, you find people that are involved in all sorts of "lesser" offenses to the same extent. The murders stem from all of that other crap. I just don't buy this guy's assertion that it is "not out of proportion with any population of 150,000 people."
Pretty good article. I agree with much of what he says. I have no doubt that the early crime rise as because of gang guys from Nola. In fact if memory serves me right one guy was a suspect in several. However, the good Congressman is not helping things.A deportation law? I am sorry thats the biggest waste of time because you can't deport people from States. However it gets the Congressman some press.
"Send 'em home," echoed someone in the audience, to rising applause.
I can handle that.
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