Edited sentence: City officials have stated time and again that the population is much higher than most think, most people only look at repopulation as former residents returning but the city has plenty of new residents in the form of tens if not hundreds of thousands of Hispanic workers in the city that stated they plan to remain there permenantly and move their families to the region which would be a boost to New Orleans, it would bring in a new culture in a city that already is multi-cultural and would move New Orleans to the fore-front of the immigration movement.New Orleans is repopulating at great levels, evidenced by a lack of school space for returning students which led to 300 students being put on waiting list in January 2007 and the city of New Orleans seeing sales taxes at 88% of pre-Katrina levels