The Left never wastes an opportunity to exploit a crisis and faced with the Baltimore bridge collision and collapse, it quickly trotted out two narratives.
- The bridge collision was caused by systemic racism. Baltimore had been discriminated against and so its infrastructure wasn’t up to spec.
- The illegal aliens killed on the bridge show that we need open borders.
Let’s address the second one.
Immigrants killed in Baltimore bridge collapse died doing job ‘others do not want to do’ – Reuters
Some said they were not surprised that all of the victims were immigrants, even though they account for less than 10% of the population in Maryland’s largest city…
“One of the reasons Latinos were involved in this accident is because Latinos do the work that others do not want to do. We have to do it, because we come here for a better life. We do not come to invade the country,” said Lucia Islas, president of Comité Latino de Baltimore, a nonprofit group.
Baltimore, which has struggled with high crime and a poverty rate nearly double the national average, historically hasn’t been home to a large Hispanic population, but the community has grown in recent years. Hispanics made up 7.8% of the city’s population in 2020, up from 4.2% in 2010, according to U.S. Census figures.
Baltimore has a high unemployment rate and a particularly high black unemployment rate. 13% according to the NAACP.
Was Baltimore really suffering from a shortage of low-wage and low-skilled workers?
One way of looking at this is that the contractors chose workers from Central America because they can be paid little, don’t know their rights, and are disposable.
Another is that the people who would normally be filling their jobs in Baltimore don’t want to do those jobs because it’s easier to collect welfare.
Neither perspective makes the leftist agenda look good. And neither one is an argument for open borders.
The blue urban model is a disaster area and adding open borders to the mix doesn’t fit it, it just makes it worse.