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Thank you very much for your support. This is the Daily Blast from the New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR Network.

I'm your host, Greg Sargent.

At around 1.30 in the morning on Tuesday, the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed in Baltimore

after a massive cargo ship lost power and rammed into it. Nearly 48 hours later, as of this

recording, six of the workers on that bridge are still

missing.

Who were these workers?

They all appear to have been immigrants from Central America and Mexico, but as of now,

little is known about them.

This tragedy tells a larger story about the plight of immigrant workers in America

and our collective

treatment of them, which is often pretty terrible. Here to discuss this today is Maximilian

Alvarez, editor-in-chief of the Real News Network, which is based in Baltimore. Max has been working

the story pretty hard. Thanks for coming on today. Thank you so much for having me. So these workers were filling

potholes on the bridge. The Coast Guard has ended its search, presuming that six of those

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