Immigrants are essential workers

Letter to the editor in today's NY Times:

Re “Biden Plan Gives 11 Million a Path to U.S. Citizenship” (Jan. 20):

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.