Baltimore bridge victims were immigrants in riskier, hard-to fill jobs

[RSherman]

This message needs more publicity! For the MAGA crowd who portray immigrants as "non human", criminal, etc., they take jobs that others won't. And, they are quite often exploited.

https://www.marketplace.org/2024/03/27/baltimore-bridge-victims-were-immigrants-in-riskier-hard-to-fill-jobs/?fbclid=IwAR2uAyISC4rG-roTtpY8v797EGKj3TyDUzSUWOatzsJtGcnWccOdkzrP3Z8_aem_AX9fOdtx_NIIqMb1YjKBV7bR_GqtDcXkViD1DX2g3-_r9tnvQPmBkx5UKh_9TlpuVGZTcHxiXHlHH13YGyh-8M72

Stories of immigrants who clean up after hurricanes in TX and FL (where they are perhaps the most aligned by those governors!):

Undocumented immigrants clean up after storms in FL. No one else wants to do it. Then DeSantis falsely claims they are there to "ransack" after the storm. Ugh. I heard an interview a few years ago in which immigrants report sleeping in and under their cars while cleaners working for FEMA are given hotel rooms. They are constantly harassed by law enforcement.

https://www.npr.org/2022/10/11/1128184363/undocumented-immigrant-workers-are-helping-clean-up-florida-after-hurricane-ian

IMMIGRANT DAY LABORERS CONFRONT A PERFECT STORM OF EXPLOITATION IN HURRICANE HARVEY CLEANUP
Texas leads the nation in construction industry deaths, and labor organizations in Houston say they’ve seen a spike in wage theft since the hurricane.

https://theintercept.com/2017/11/13/hurricane-harvey-houston-immigrant-construction-workers/