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Happening now! The Essential Role of Immigrant Workers in America. #ImmigrantsAreEssential #WeAreHome

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.@SenAlexPadilla: "America depends on the labor of immigrants. Immigrants are critical to our strength in every essential industry." #ImmigrantsAreEssential #WeAreHome

.@SenAlexPadilla: "The immigrant workers who have sacrificed and worked for us during the pandemic have earned more than platitudes. They have earned citizenship."
#ImmigrantsAreEssential #WeAreHome

.@SenatorDurbin: "What more can we ask of them than to risk their lives for us? How can we turn them away?"
#ImmigrantsAreEssential #WeAreHome

.@SenWhitehouse: "Millions of essential workers... cared for us during the pandemic. Our country now owes them to ensure that they stay." #ImmigrantsAreEssential #WeAreHome

Rose Tilus: "In these difficult times, immigrants have shown their devotion and support to this country." #ImmigrantsAreEssential #WeAreHome

Bruce Goldstein: "Strawberries cannot be harvested and cows cannot be milked on Zoom."

#ImmigrantsAreEssential #WeAreHome

Tom K. Wong: "Workers who we deem essential today should not have to live with the fear of deportation tomorrow." #ImmigrantsAreEssential #WeAreHome