Thread by @AmericasVoice

HAPPENING NOW: Join @CHIRLA, @SEIU & @FIAnational for a town hall on the Essential Workers Act with @SenAlexPadilla, @SenWarren, @RepTedLieu, & @JoaquinCastrontx!

WATCH LIVE: fb.com/fwdus #WeAreHome

Leydy Rangel: "For nearly an entire year, farm workers have risked their lives to produce our food in the pandemic... Undocumented farm workers and families like mine face another menace, and that's a lack of status." #WeAreHome

.@SenAlexPadilla: "Dignity, respect, and a pathway to citizenship for essential workers is personal to me and is in the best interest of our nation." #WeAreHome

Doris Landaverde: "We are the people who risk our lives everyday when we leave our homes to work."

Doris is an essential worker at @Harvard. When the students were sent home, she continued working on campus. #WeAreHome

.@ewarren: "We must pay special attention to undocumented essential workers... We have failed to live up to our values as a nation. And that's what the Citizenship for Essential Workers Act does- it allows us to live up to our values." #WeAreHome

Javier Castro: "I am grateful for DACA but unfortunately this is not a permanent solution and nobody should have to live their lives two years at a time."

Javier is the only Spanish speaking nurse in his unit in Texas. #WeAreHome

.@JoaquinCastrotx: "We should be forever grateful as a nation for their work and what they were willing to sacrifice for our country." #WeAreHome

.@RepTedLieu: "We know that undocumented immigrants are one of the largest groups among the essential workforce... We are relying on undocumented immigrants to help protect Americans." #WeAreHome

Rose Tilus: "With this new administration I have felt hope that things will be different because the last four years have been horrendous." #WeAreHome