LaffyMar 28, 2024

Via Will: "When a cargo ship took out a #Baltimore bridge, it also demolished the lies poisoning our #immigration debate

The 6 migrant men who died weren't drug dealers or sex traffickers but hero dads filling potholes to give their kids a better life.

This column meant more to me than anything I've written for a while. Here's an excerpt. Please take a moment to read the whole thing."

If @willbunch wrote it, you should read it.©

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

A ship crashed into a Baltimore bridge and demolished the lies about immigration

Despite the right's ridiculous DEI conspiracy theories, the Baltimore bridge disaster reminded us that immigrants are what makes America great.

The Philadelphia Inquirer
Show threadCatherine Schmidt
@GottaLaff @willbunch outstanding article. Thank you for posting it. Who do Americans think pick their vegetables, clean their toilets, take care of their elders , mow their lawns, build their houses…..it ain’t Americans.
Mar 28, 2024 at 8:53pmWeb
Show threadMagnus AhltorpMar 28, 2024
@lillyfinch @GottaLaff @willbunch Not wanting to diminish anything you said, but if the people working the jobs fundamental to the American society can’t be called Americans, then who can?