The Baltimore bridge collapse reminds us immigrants often do unheralded and dangerous work
by Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times
Mar 29, 2024
3 minutes
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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