GottaLaff ,
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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

‘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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    heatherlynn8571 ,
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    @GottaLaff @willbunch

    I love Will's writing !!! This is VERY GOOD !!!!

    Leefellerguy ,
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    @GottaLaff @willbunch Every dawn person in the UD is an immigrant, except native americans.

    dogzilla ,
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    @GottaLaff @willbunch Thank you

    wqjones ,
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    @GottaLaff @willbunch

    DigitalTaoist ,
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    @GottaLaff @willbunch
    The USA is a nation of immigrants, and as a dual national with US citizenship I'm an example of that. It's also, lately, a nation of hypocrites, as is the UK/France and every other western democracy crying 'too much immigration!'

    The loathsome orange guy himself owes his own existence as an American to his grandfather having dodged the draft and then having gotten banished from Bavaria.

    Dodo_sipping ,
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    @GottaLaff First of all, ALL non-native Americans are immigrants or Kids of them, aren't they? Stole the land, killed the people and buffalos, and now complain, that others come to work? Come on...
    So sorry for the 6 guys. 😞 @willbunch

    Atticus1956 ,
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    @GottaLaff @willbunch

    Will, thank you for humanizing the victims of this epic tragedy. The article should be forced reading for everyone.

    Daniel_Blake ,

    @GottaLaff @willbunch

    rob ,
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    @GottaLaff @willbunch

    https://www.axios.com/2024/03/28/latino-economic-growth-business-native-born-citizens

    Your comments align with this article published yesterday.

    ideogram ,
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    @GottaLaff @willbunch
    This made me proud even if I'm not American.

    w_gulley ,

    @GottaLaff and isn't it fascinating that immigrant families are starting new businesses at twice the rate of the general population. I am sorry for those families who lost their fathers. And brothers.

    sabogato ,
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    @GottaLaff @willbunch the people poisoning the country are the capitalists, not immigrants. An immigrant has never harmed me, but a boss sure has.

    EnJ ,
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    @GottaLaff @willbunch

    camstonefaux ,
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    @GottaLaff
    Why couldn’t it have been Clarance Thomas & his wife on that bridge instead?

    GRA3432 ,
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    @GottaLaff @willbunch I did. Thank you for the link.

    GottaLaff OP ,
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    @GRA3432 @willbunch is always worth it!

    wakeyPoneke ,
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    @GottaLaff @willbunch even if they had been so called illegal immigrants, they were human beings who deserved to be treated as such.

    GraceC ,
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    @GottaLaff @willbunch Thank you.

    jackyan ,
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    @GottaLaff @willbunch That was seriously well written.

    GottaLaff OP ,
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    @jackyan @willbunch is my favorite writer, always nails it with master wordsmithing.

    mjf_pro ,
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    @GottaLaff @AE4WX @willbunch “an army of pampered coffee shop keyboard commandos and a few overpaid TV hairdos”

    🫶👏👏👏👏

    mjf_pro ,
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    @GottaLaff @AE4WX @willbunch When they rebuild the bridge, I hope they name or dedicate a section of it to those six folks. 🙏

    BillMcGuire ,
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    @GottaLaff
    yes, excellent. total b.s. by the scoundrels in our country who take every opportunity when presented with anyone with brown or black skin to denigrate them without any idea of who they are or what menial labor they do to feed/clothe their families. I yield back my time.

    edgarmtoro ,
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    @GottaLaff @willbunch
    Well said.
    If soldiers die fighting for defending "Freedom and Democracy" in a far away land, and they are buried with full honours, same as these 6 workers, who simply went one day to work to fulfill their piece of hope for the American Dream.

    dorart33 ,
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    @GottaLaff @willbunch 👍 😢 They will be remembered .

    phaedral ,
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    @GottaLaff @willbunch I see this sort of story as reactive to the DEI nonsense, and still essentially enabling the bad guys who want to keep us from talking about...

    Feds Recently Hit Cargo Giant In Baltimore Disaster For Silencing Whistleblowers

    Regulators cited Maersk for its “illegal policy” blocking employees from reporting safety concerns to the Coast Guard.

    https://www.levernews.com/feds-recently-hit-cargo-giant-in-baltimore-disaster-for-silencing-whistleblowers/

    CatDragon ,
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    @GottaLaff @willbunch and the folks denigrating them? I always want to ask, where did your people come from? Were they fleeing famine and hardship? Didn’t your great gramma have a scarf on her head and struggle with English? Wasn’t her husband a day laborer in the time when European immigrants were last hired first fired? Didn’t they come here with nothing but hope and work themselves to death so you could prosper?

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