A 🧵 on #immigration and a new administration. As a @JoeBiden administration and Congress prioritize battling the pandemic and fostering an economic recovery, both parties must recognize that #immigrants, standing shoulder to shoulder with native-born Americans, ...1/11
..are essential to those efforts. The new administration need to work from the outset to reunite families separated at the border, begin rebuilding the #refugee and #asylum systems the Trump administration dismantled and roll back draconian and nativist restrictions on ...2/11
..legal #immigration. Human dignity, family unity and the economy of the US are at stake. Longer-term and together with Congress, the new administration should implement #immigration policies that help workers, families and the economy to recover from the COVID-19 crisis. 3/11
Legislators, with support from the administration, should immediately enact solutions to cement the essential work of #DACA recipients and people with temporary protected status. #Immigrants share our common values: human dignity, taking care of family, hard work, care for ..4/11
..for others, giving back and contributing to the nation and society. Election night polling from Public Opinion Strategies found that by a 43%-33% margin, President Trump’s position on #immigration made voters less likely to vote for him for president. According to the ...5/11
..2020 Fox News Voter Analysis, 71% of Americans want a way for undocumented #immigrants to earn legal status. In a new survey from the Public Religion Research Institute, 79% of Republicans say #immigrants are hardworking and 76% say they have strong family values. Among ...6/11
..white evangelical Christians, more than half support a way for undocumented #immigrants, including #Dreamers, to earn legal status and eventual citizenship. #Immigrants represent 17% of the health care workforce overall; 24% of direct-care workers such as nursing, ...7/11
..psychiatric and home health aides; and 28% of highly skilled professionals such as physicians and surgeons.
Foreign-born workers make up 76% of all farmworkers and 42% of all food packers. Overall, 22% of workers in the nation’s food supply chain are #immigrants. That’s ..8/11
Foreign-born workers make up 76% of all farmworkers and 42% of all food packers. Overall, 22% of workers in the nation’s food supply chain are #immigrants. That’s ..8/11
..about 2.1 million workers who grow, harvest, process and sell food in the United States. A recovering nation will need innovators and job creators. Research indicates that in a given industry, each temporary foreign worker creates 5 to 7.5 new domestic jobs on average. 9/11
The same study shows that a 1% increase in the number of foreign workers in science, technology, engineering and math leads to a 7% to 8% increase in the wages of native-born workers. By 2033, the US could experience a shortage of as many as 139,000 physicians, the ...10/11
..Association of American Medical Colleges estimates. #Immigrants and #refugees are not a threat to the US; they represent an opportunity to be seized by the US. 11/11
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