CBS News: Worker who survived New Orleans hotel collapse deported
Activists believe the man’s arrest was in retaliation for reporting to a supervisor about construction shortcuts before the collapse, and for comments he made to reporters afterward.
Ramirez Palma was arrested two days after the collapse.
“Mr. Ramirez Palma is a material witness to a potentially criminal investigation,” said Daryl A. Gray, a lawyer. “And he is being deported by the same government duty bound to uncover what caused this construction project to fail and kill and injure multiple human beings”
— Steven Greenhouse (@greenhousenyt) November 30, 2019
