Activists: Immigrant Workers are Essential, Deserve Path to Citizenship

By Michelle Chen, The Progressive

Immigrant workers in hospitals, grocery stores, and farms have been heralded for their service on the front lines of the pandemic. Yet many have been left feeling alienated and fearful at work; some have been economically devastated; many have been deprived of protective equipment, threatened with termination for demanding safe conditions, or just paid much too little for a job that could cost them their lives.