Could the guest workers have circumvented the fees by applying directly to Decatur or Accent for the positions? Discuss.

According to the National Hurricane Center, Hurricane Katrina, which struck in August 2005, was “one of the most devastating natural disasters” in history. With maximum winds extending across a thirty-mile radius and spawning forty-three tornadoes, the storm swept across Florida and the Gulf Coast states, causing $81 billion in damage and more than 1,800 deaths, including 1,577 in Louisiana. A storm surge of up to twenty-eight feet in a twenty-mile-wide swath flooded parts of Mississippi and Alabama, and it burst through levees surrounding the city of New Orleans. More than 1 million people were evacuated from the afflicted area.