As it was confirmed that all of those missing from the large bridge collapse that occurred in Baltimore, Maryland were immigrants, the government of their home country expressed its sorrow and solidarity with the families of the missing people.
Mexican President Andres Manuel López Obrador said at a regular press conference on the 27th (local time), “Two out of three of our citizens are missing in the Baltimore accident,” and “one person was rescued and is being treated at a hospital.”
Mexico’s president added that he would not disclose specific identities at the request of the families of the missing and emphasized the tragedy as “evidence of how much immigrants contribute to the U.S. economy.” “Immigrants from Central and South America are going out in the middle of the night and doing dangerous work in the United States for their families in their home countries,” he said. “In other words, there is no reason for immigrants to be treated the way they are now by some insensitive and irresponsible politicians in the United States.” “I do it,” he emphasized.
The Guatemalan government also announced that two of its citizens, a 26-year-old man and a 35-year-old man, were missing. Guatemalan President Bernardo Arevalo said on his social networking service “I will do it,” he wrote. El Salvador’s Foreign Minister Alexandra Hill Tinoco and the Honduran government also confirmed that one of their citizens each went missing while working on the Baltimore Bridge.
In the case of Mainor Yasir Suazó Sandoval, 39, a missing person from Honduras, he came to the United States alone 18 years ago as an undocumented (illegal) person and was working to bring his family from his native village to the United States. AP The news agency reported.
“Sandoval, the youngest of eight children, was taking steps to obtain legal residency and had planned to return to Honduras sometime this year to complete the process,” his brother said in an AP interview. “However, if we hear the worst outcome, the family will work hard to bring his body to his hometown in Honduras.”