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The Baltimore bridge collapse reminds us immigrants often do unheralded and dangerous work

The container ship Dali Wednesday morning, March 27, 2024, at the site where it collided with the Francis Scott Key Bridge.

Immigrants built America. That's an indisputable fact. But today there are many politicians and pundits who would like us to believe that the great contributions of immigrants stopped somewhere in the late 1800s with the completion of the Brooklyn Bridge.

This week provided a stark reminder of just how integral immigrants are to the nation's infrastructure and four more are missing and presumed dead, following the bridge collapse in Baltimore. A construction crew was working the overnight shift on the

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