In the course of a few seconds, the container ship MV Dali lost power and drifted into a support column or pier, causing one of the biggest bridges in a major American city to come crashing down into the Chesapeake Bay. The enormous outpouring of grief and sympathy for the workers and their families contrasts sharply with the vicious anti-immigrant atmosphere being continually whipped up in official political circles. This type of event exposes the collision between private profit and the needs