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9-11-01 – Remembering the Forgetten Victims

7:30 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Events|Immigration|New York City · Comments Off

11 Sep 2006

twin_towers-791414.jpgThe majority of tributes today will be paid to those firefighters, police officers, and other civil servants who lost their lives on September 11, 2001. But there were many victims who perished that day who are not remembered. Some of those unaccounted for were undocumented who died and who have not been acknowledged and whose dependents have not been in any way recognized or compensated.

Additionally many hundreds of undocumented workers were employed for the clean-up and decontamination of ground zero and surrounding community. With the recent reports of just how dangerous health conditions were in the World Trade Center area following the attacks, one has to wonder how many undocumented workers are suffering because of exposure to toxic air and debris.

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