62 undocumented immigrants who worked at the World Trade Center were not officially identified as 9/11 victims.
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The Ebro, Laura, Rosenberg ShowSep 12, 2026
The core assertion that undocumented workers at the World Trade Center were never officially identified or counted among the victims is supported by NPR (2021), the CHC statement (2023), and the Chicago Tribune and NYT coverage.
Minor detail. The sources confirm the claim; only a minor detail differs, such as a name's spelling, a title's wording or a rounding.
What was said
… Only five undocumented immigrants out of the 67 have actually been identified. Their names have been included, but the other 62, their names are not anywhere, ah, to be read aloud. And then something else that I always remind people is that undocumented immigrants, even to this day, when they're working and being paid cash and stuff like that, there's no record of them usually. …
The Ebro, Laura, Rosenberg Show · · from the transcriptPost →What we found
Contradicts. The figure of 62 is not stated in any source; NPR's estimate is 67 still missing, so the specific count departs from the record by about five people.[3]
Supports. NPR (2021) reports an estimated 67 undocumented immigrants who worked at the World Trade Center on Sept. 11 are still considered missing two decades after the attacks.[3][4]
Supports. The CHC chair's 2023 statement says many Latinos were never identified or included in the official death count because they were undocumented.[2]
Supports. USAPP (2014) reports that at the 2011 memorial reading, names of 2,753 officially recognized victims were read, including five Mexicans who worked at two World Trade Center restaurants.[5]
Supports. The Chicago Tribune (2002) and NYT (2008) describe undocumented victims as left with few traces, often unrecognized, and unable to claim aid because they lacked documents.[6][7]
Context. The FactCheck.org piece notes the death-certificate count excluded undocumented victims whose families did not come forward, and that the number of illegal immigrant victims is unknown.[1]
Sources
7 sources: 1 fact-checker, 1 primary, 1 tier 2, 4 not rated
- 1World Trade Center Victims - FactCheck.orgfactcheck.org · fact-checker · cited for: context
- 2CHC Chair Barragán Statement on 22nd Anniversary of the September ...chc.house.gov › media-center › press-releaseschc.house.gov · primary source · cited for: supports
- 3Undocumented Immigrants Employed By The World Trade ...npr.org · tier 2 · cited for: contradicts, supports
- 4Undocumented Immigrants Employed By The World Trade Center ...wwno.org · not rated · cited for: supports
- 5The invisibility of undocumented migrants in 9/11 relief and commemoration is a symptom of their wider social and political isolation. | USAPPblogs.lse.ac.uk · not rated · cited for: supports
- 6Fear, red tape mean `lost year - Chicago Tribunechicagotribune.com · not rated · cited for: supports
- 79/11 Immigrant Survivors Move Toward Legal Statusarchive.nytimes.com · not rated · cited for: supports
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