The Daily Blast: Horror in Baltimore: Awful New Info Emerges About Six Missing Workers

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Chris Cotnoir

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4.5 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2024

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Two days after a major bridge collapsed in Baltimore when a cargo ship rammed into it, we still know little about six bridge workers who are presumed dead after an intensive search. Little by little, we’re learning that police were just about to alert the workers about the crash but were a hair too late, and that they were immigrants who were supporting children and families. Who were these workers? Could they have been saved? We talked to Maximillian Alvarez, editor in chief of the Baltimore-based Real News Network, about what this horror tells us about immigrant life in America. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:10.0	At around 1.30 in the morning on Tuesday, the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed in Baltimore
1:19.6	after a massive cargo ship lost power and rammed into it.
1:24.0	Nearly 48 hours later, as of this recording, six of the workers on that bridge are still missing.
1:30.0	Who were these workers?
1:32.0	They all appear to have been immigrants from Central America and Mexico,
1:36.0	but as of now little is known about them.
1:39.0	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.
1:48.0	Here to discuss this today is Maximilian Alvarez, editor-in-chief of the Real News Network, which is based in
1:53.9	Baltimore. Max has been working the story pretty hard. Thanks for coming on today.
1:58.3	Thank you so much for having. So these workers were filling potholes on the bridge. The
2:04.9	Coast Guard has ended its search presuming that six of those workers are dead and
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