New Orleans is a place full of opportunities for economic vitalization. The greater New Orleans area has suffered tremendous devastation and “has many rivers to cross, but does not know it way.”
Soon, the economic vitality will increase. The overall concern is that in when a fluid economic opportunity exist, as seen throughout history, people at the bottom of the well, those less educated and those ignorant to the customs of society or law lose equal opportunity to the wealth. Hence, disparities are rampant yet criminal as violations of human rights. The corporate and privatized structure that has engulfed New Orleans has and will continue to keep migrant and poor workers in deep dependency on local governments that want to criminalize those who are rebuilding infrastructure.
The Louisiana legislature must address the economic needs of the residents, document, and undocumented, to create law that is specific to disaster law. The legislature should be creative and draw from other nation that have areas susceptible or have gone through natural disaster on a grand scale.
The legislation must change law that allows migrant undocumented persons legal rights such as specific employment rights tailored to undocumented workers, voting rights, housing subsidies, criminal immunity to past loitering crimes that stemmed from searching for work.
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