The contract -- announced Jan. 24 by the engineering and construction firm KBR -- calls for preparing for "an emergency influx of immigrants, or to support the rapid development of new programs" in the event of other emergencies, such as "a natural disaster." The release offered no details about where Halliburton was to build these facilities, or when.
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Note: Pacific News Service
Say what???
How often has this occurred in the past? Hopefully the Katrina victims won't be herded like cattle to a facility like this. Supposedly mobiles and hotels/motels are being provided now. One can assume these facilities may be used for another purpose.
Yeah, right.
After Katrina left thousands homeless on the Gulf Coast, officials in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama began calling for trailers to provide temporary shelter. More than 100,000 were requested, and somebody decided to create holding areas for the trailers outside the hurricane zone. Today, legions of wide-bodied mobile homes sit empty at Hope's Municipal Airport, a sprawling former military base. After all these months, storm victims can't seem to get the trailers, which are proving a mixed blessing to Hope and Arkansas.
"It just boggles the mind in this day and time," said Mark Keith, director of the Hope-Hempstead County Chamber of Commerce in an interview at truthout.org. "There are 10,770 trailers at Hope Airport. That's one for every man, woman and child in Hope, with a few left over to send to Emmet, down the road."
Sitting empty. But there are still tens of thousands still in FEMA "camps" throughout the south. We just never hear of them in the MSM, because reporting is not allowed- we have to dig for this stuff in the blogosphere.