Officials of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Foundation have encountered another bump on their long road to opening the $120 million memorial to the slain civil rights icon.

An American bricklayers union is appealing to the State Department to deny visas to a group of Chinese workers set to assemble the King sculpture on the National Mall.

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