Ship personnel aboard the cargo ship Dali, entangled in debris after crashing into the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore. Does America need a more searing visual image than eight men working for their piece of the America dream — filling potholes on a terrifying bridge in 1 a.m. darkness — to understand that our nation was built by immigrants, runs on immigrant labor and needs immigrants?
Our culture honors — with big gestures — the dangers that law enforcement officers face in the line of duty every day. But their work is the 22nd most dangerous profession in America, according to a differentby the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Policing is far behind the occupations of landscaping, roofing, farming, garbage collecting, constructing, and maintaining the nation’s highways — all jobs widely filled by immigrants.
The pandemic and boomer retirement has something to do with this, but the most glaring factor is a decline in migration that’s lasted nearly a decade, the chamber folks
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