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Latino Workers Are Afraid of Baltimore Bridge Rebuilding: 'We Don't Want to Die'

Latino Workers Afraid of Baltimore Bridge Rebuilding: “We don’t want to die” (Credit: Mandel NGAN/AFP)

Almost two weeks after the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, which resulted in the deaths of six Latino workers, and following President Joe Biden's announcement that he wants the federal government to cover the cost of rebuilding it, many workers have said they are too afraid to take on the job.

"We don't want to die that way," José Luis Juarez, 41, from Guatemala, told The Independent in a recent article while he was visiting a memorial to the late workers.

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