(Josie Saldana – English) In a recent article, I considered how Hurricane Katrina is also an issue of importance to a transnational approach to Latino studies. In it I traced the filial origins of Black and Brown power inspired scholarship to the internationalist impulses in both movements. However, I also considered the impact that Katrina has had on the New Orleans large immigrant communities, especially those from Latin America. Indeed, much of Bush's special legislation around Katrina was conducive to both the persecution of immigrants for their status and the hyper-exploitation in the clean up of the city. As predicted by a number of black and Latino intellectuals and pundits, the clean up of the city is being conducted primarily by undocumented immigrants, and this fact is often mobilized as a divisive factor. I would like to follow up the preliminary research I did on the displaced Latin American immigrant population, on the one hand, and the imported undocumented workers on the other. How are they being incorporated into the clean up? In what numbers, and in what particular tasks? How are they reacting to their exploitation in this regard? (There have been numerous MOS interviews with immigrants in the region on Spanish language television in this regard.) What happened to the half a million immigrants that were previously in the region? Where have the gone to, or have the gone anywhere at all? Finally, how is the immigrant doing the clean up being mobilized discursively in the ongoing battle against undocumented immigration from the South?