Immigrants account for 18.2% of healthcare workers and 23.5% of formal and nonformal long-term care sector workers.
27.5% of direct care workers and 30.3% of nursing home housekeeping and maintenance workers are immigrants https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10.1377/hlthaff.2018.05514 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1252418369170501639
Immigrants make up large shares of essential workers in other industries critical to the pandemic response, such as those in the food supply chain. They too are taking on great personal risk so that Americans can stay home, safe, and well-fed https://www.migrationpolicy.org/content/essential-role-immigrants-us-food-supply-chain
Share of foreign-born workers in other industries critical to the coronavirus response https://www.migrationpolicy.org/research/immigrant-workers-us-covid-19-response
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