Monday, January 25, 2021

Immigrants are essential workers

Letter to the editor in today's NY Times:


Immigrants, asylum seekers and Dreamers like me have endured four years of attacks from the Trump administration. 

Even though I can breathe a sigh of relief with this new administration, the uncertainty of my status remains the same.

This is why President Biden’s proposal to overhaul our nation’s immigration system matters. 

Millions of undocumented immigrants are currently serving as essential workers, and yet have not received any sort of assistance in previous Covid-19 relief packages.

I urge Congress and the Biden administration to finally pass immigration reforms, and am hopeful that they will.

Jose Garcia
San Francisco

The writer is a communications associate with the Latino Community Foundation.

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3 Comments:

At 8:58 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

I urge you to go hand over half your salary or unemployed whichever you may be receiving and put it in the hand of the next undocumented individual.

 
At 1:29 PM, Blogger Rob Anderson said...

I've worked with a lot of immigrants over the years. I didn't know or care about their immigration status. All I knew is that they were good workers and, as far as I knew, good people.

 
At 6:28 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

What does that mean?

 

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