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   Gladwyn d’Souza (godsouza@sfba.social)'s status on Friday, 29-Mar-2024 07:18:52 JST Gladwyn d’Souza

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   Will Brunch at the Inquirer- When the Dali cargo ship demolished that bridge support on Tuesday, it also obliterated all the ridiculous lies and myths our demagogues have been spreading around immigration. There were no sex traffickers aboard the Key Bridge that night. Nobody was dealing fentanyl. They were not “animals,” but fathers and husbands like Suazo and Luna, whose wife occasionally showed up in her food truck to bring the men tacos and pupusas. They were filling potholes so their children could have an even better life.

   These six workers who perished were not “poisoning the blood of our country,” they were replenishing it. This is a moment of clarity when we need to reject the national disease of xenophobia and restore our faith in the United States as a beacon for the best people like Maynor Suazo. They may have been born all over the continent, but when these men plunged into our waters on Tuesday, they died as Americans.

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     Gladwyn d’Souza (godsouza@sfba.social)'s status on Friday, 29-Mar-2024 07:18:53 JST Gladwyn d’Souza

     “He always told us that you had to triple your effort to get ahead,” the brother, Martín Suazo Sandoval, told the Associated Press from Honduras. “He said it didn’t matter what time or where the job was, you had to be where the work was.”

     At 1:28 a.m. Tuesday, the work was on the Francis Scott Key Bridge.

     Suazo and seven men with stories very much like his — migrants from the neighboring countries of Guatemala, El Salvador, and Mexico — were filling potholes on the region’s major span on a raw March night. They were doing a backbreaking job at a wretched hour, one that many other Americans simply can’t or won’t do ― all so that their neighbors could drive safely to their warm, comfortable office cubicles in the dawn’s early light.

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     https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/baltimore-bridge-collapse-immigrant-deaths-20240328.html

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