Thread by @CASAforall

Today @SenAlexPadilla’s hearing is the beginning of a new chapter on the next 100 days of the Biden Administration through decisive Congressional action. #ImmigrantsAreEssential 🦋

📺Watch the hearing here 👇judiciary.senate.gov/meetings/the-e…

We appreciate @SenAlexPadilla for highlighting that immigrants are the ones that are largely doing the jobs that can't be done online during this pandemic. #ImmigrantsAreEssential

🦋🦋🦋One of the sponsors of this bill @SenatorDurbin recognizes that immigrants risk their lives EVERY DAY during this pandemic.

Rose from @HaitianBridge, a Rhode Island Nurse and TPS holder and will address the Committee on the Judiciary.

“Having a pathway to citizenship after almost 20 years would mean that I have freedom to work without worrying about my working permit expiring."

Bruce Goldstein with @FarmwrkrJustice highlights that agriculture workers in the United States are largely immigrants. During the pandemic since you cannot harvest food 🍊🍋🌽🥕🥔🍅through zoom, they were required to go to work. #ImmigrantsAreEssential

Goldstein (@FarmwrkrJustice) also says that agriculture workers weren't given proper protective equipment, no distancing was enforced and undocumented workers feared to get tested for COVID because of their citizenship status. #ImmigrantsAreEssential

Dr. Tom K. Wong from @UCSanDiego relates "an estimated 1.8 million undocumented essential workers work in the U.S. food supply chain" #ImmigrantsAreEssential 🦋

Dr. Tom K. Wong from @UCSanDiego says that undocumented workers pay an estimated $47.6 billion in federal taxes to the United States and $26.5 billion in state and local taxes annually. #ImmigrantsAreEssential 🦋

🦋5 million undocumented #ImmigrantsAreEssential workers.
🦋5 million teachers, construction workers, delivery drivers, nurses, farmworkers.
🦋5 million friends, family members, students, co-workers.

📢📢📢We're calling for a path to citizenship for ALL!

Rose from @HaitianBridge shares that at the height of COVID-19 she was working 16 hour days at a nursing home with infected residents. Not only was she worried about being infected but also her citizenship status and providing for her family. #ImmigrantsAreEssential

These Senators recognize that #ImmigrantsAreEssential. Thank you @SenAmyKlobuchar @SenFeinstein @ChrisCoons @maziehirono @SenBlumenthal and @SenBooker for uplifting immigrant essential workers! #ImmigrantsAreEssential

Chair @SenatorDurbin notes that most unaccompanied children who are traveling to the United States are in desperate situations where there families only way to get them a better life is to send them to another country.

Dr. Tom K. Wong from @UCSanDiego
says "Essential workers have earned a pathway to citizenship". By being part of the workforce and paying taxes makes them active members of our society.

Immigrants are:
🏥Saving lives
🛒Running businesses
📦Delivering packages
🚎Transporting passengers
🥕Harvesting food
🍼Caring for children

Protect immigrant essential workers by creating a pathway to citizenship!#ImmigrantsAreEssential #WeAreHome

Bruce Goldstein with @FarmwrkrJustice says that agriculture workers are highly skilled and they are doing the work that no one else wants to do. Without them our we wouldn't be able to keep up with the food demand in the United States #ImmigrantsAreEssential

Immigrant workers are ESSENTIAL. We need citizenship for ALL essential workers and ALL 11 million undocumented immigrants. Thank you to @SenAlexPadilla for holding this hearing.
#ImmigrantsAreEssential #FreedomTogether