Hundreds of illegal immigrants have been killed at construction sites across the country, marking yet another hidden cost of President Joe Biden’s gradual welcome of cheap immigrant labor.
According to the December report, “Foreign-born Hispanic or Latino workers accounted for 63.5 percent (792) of the total number of deaths (1,248) among Hispanic or Latino workers in 2022. ”. release According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. “The construction industry accounted for 316 deaths.” [or 40 percent] Of 792 foreign-born Hispanic or Latino workers who died in 2022. ”
The government ministry will not release 2023 death data until after the 2024 election.
Media coverage of the 719 deaths of undocumented immigrant workers was minimal, especially compared to media coverage of the “kids in cages” fake border scandal during President Donald Trump’s four years.
However, the number of deaths among illegal immigrants was enormous. caught the spotlight According to left-wing publication InThesetimes.com:
““When you come to this country, you end up in a precarious situation because you want to make money,” says Sanchez, who has been working there for about two years. 15 I’ve been in the South for many years since I came to America. He has worked in places that require documentation and places that don’t. And that meant getting a job that he could slip through.“When we try to work together, [white] “Americans demand a good Social Security card, and without it we die of hunger,” he says.
Others, like Duvan Thomas Perez, take on dangerous jobs. 16– Years old from a rural village in Guatemala. died Last July, the young man was barred under Mississippi law from working as a regular janitor at the Ma Jack Poultry Plant in Hattiesburg. 18 How many years have you been working at dangerous workplace.
But the magazine promoted a race-based perspective that downplayed Biden’s policies and the legal and moral distinction between illegal immigrants and Americans.
all latino Worker They tend to be young, inexperienced, poorly trained, poorly paid and work for small companies, researchers say. They often take jobs in fields that others avoid.For example, Latino workers 55.Five% of roofers nationwide had the highest death rate in the construction industry 2020.
Biden’s lawmakers are trying to improve workplace safety for undocumented immigrants by encouraging them to join unions, resulting in additional wage losses for ordinary Americans.
The article also fails to mention the deaths of thousands of immigrants, men and women, adults and children, whose deaths were induced by Biden and his agents. These lawmakers, including Mr. Biden’s impeached border chief, Alejandro Mayorkas, have painted President Donald Trump’s safer border policies as immoral while also seeking more support to please the party’s donors. Importing workers.
Some Republican politicians are starting to focus on Biden’s rising death toll.
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) said during a hearing held by the House Judiciary Committee on March 7, “The journey to come here because Joe Biden told us to rush to the border and come to our country.” Migrants died on the way,” he said. “What’s the solution? It seems like I’ve called time out,” said Jordan, the Judiciary Committee chairman.
But Democrats are ignoring the death toll while blaming Republicans for detaining immigrants.
“Our economy needs more workers,” Rep. Deborah Ross (D-North Carolina) said during a March hearing. She said, “Immigrants accept the costs and risks of traveling to the United States because they understand that their labor is needed here and that employment is easily available.”
Democrats and the U.S. media also say little about the gang rapes and sexual assaults of immigrants on their way to welcome Biden. However, on April 4th, new york times Posted Article from our South America correspondent:
Assault, robbery and rape have long been serious risks for migrants traveling around the world. But aid groups working in the Darien Gap say they have recorded an unusual spike in attacks over the past six months, with a pattern and frequency rarely seen outside of combat zones.
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Médecins Sans Frontières recorded 328 reports of sexual violence in January and February, compared to 676 in all of 2023. This year, there were 113 cases in one week in February.
“The level of brutality is extreme,” said Luis Eguils, the organization’s director in Colombia and Panama.
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InTheseTimes.com noted that even in Republican-controlled states such as Texas, many undocumented immigrants die in workplace accidents.
Texas is one of the most lethal States and records for Latino workers 269 death in 2022,from 211 in 2016.Latin people wear makeup 40% state’s populationbut they explained 47% number of workers who died on the job 2022.
The 792 confirmed immigrant deaths represent only a small portion of the increasing number of workplace deaths and fatalities under the Biden administration. BLS report:
There were 5,486 fatal workplace accidents recorded in the United States in 2022, an increase of 5.7 percent from 5,190 in 2021, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today…The fatal workplace accident rate was 100,000 full-time equivalents (FTE) 3.7 jobs per employee, up from 3.6 jobs per 100,000 FTEs in 2021.
Many workplace fatalities are caused by murderers and dangerous drivers, reflecting a massive spike amid the Democratic Party’s “Black Lives Matter” campaign against police enforcement. The BLS pointed out that:
Almost a quarter (24.6%) of homicide fatalities occurred while workers were raiding retail stores or interacting with customers.
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Road accidents involving land vehicles increased by 9.3% from 2021 to 2022, with the number of fatalities reaching a record high of 1,369 people. Pedestrian-vehicle accidents decreased by 3.6% in 2022, with 325 fatalities, the lowest number of fatalities since 2018.
Workplace suicide rates have also risen sharply under the Biden administration. “Suicides decreased in 2020 and 2021, but increased by 13.1 percent in 2022, with 267 deaths,” the BLS reported.
