The Silent Deaths Behind America's Building Boom
The Dark Side of America’s Gleaming Skyscrapers Susannah Jacob Photographs by Daniel Shea In 2014, at age 19, Eric Mendoza left his farming village outside Mexico City and crossed the Rio Grande. Once in the United States, he worked construction jobs to pay his way across the country. From Texas, Mendoza traveled to rural North Carolina, where he built homes. At a Metro PCS store, he bought a cellphone for $100 so he could call his mother, Elizabeth, who had come to the U.S. when Eric was 8. On his new phone, Eric told his mother that he had finally arrived. He said North Ca...
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