Little by little, we're learning more about the immigrant workers who died on the Baltimore bridge filling potholes at night. It's unbearable. Today's pod digs into who they were and what immigrants face in the US, with @maximillian_alv. It gets intense👇 newrepublic.com/article/180203…
@GregTSargent @NormOrnstein @maximillian_alv Are there any Go Fund Me sites set up for them?
@GregTSargent @Will_Bunch @maximillian_alv Really good episode. The emotion(and righteous indignation) that @maximillian_alv projected was key. It is too bad that unions don’t step into the holes of immigrant work. More protections, and conversely more members.
@GregTSargent @maximillian_alv I heard it reported tht 40% of construction workers in the greater Baltimore area are immigrants. I wish Industries that rely on them so much would speak up about them and for them.
@GregTSargent @maximillian_alv "In the Americas, more than 8,400 people have been reported dead or missing during migration since 2014. More than half of these deaths were documented on the border between Mexico and the United States, which is the deadliest land crossing in the world."
@GregTSargent Amazing 🇺🇸 x.com/amelia7no/stat…
@GregTSargent @mehdirhasan @maximillian_alv They worked hard on the night shifts when there would be less traffic.
@GregTSargent @jphicks @maximillian_alv Doing the scutwork that Americans won't do can be dangerous indeed.
@GregTSargent @clearing_fog @maximillian_alv I think this might be the real story behind the story, not all the conspiracy theories and nonsense that started not even 24 hours after the event.