Progressive Politics

Reality check: Whether botched redirect or paperwork bottleneck, these 13 men originally from Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Turkmenistan were corralled into one place. They became sitting ducks for what happened next. A perfect storm of state infrastructure failure meets local panic. The material contradiction is obvious: immigrant truck drivers keep the supply chains moving under exploitative conditions. Yet the system criminalizes their very presence the moment they try to comply with the rules it sets.