Essential workers have kept our nation running during the Covid-19 crisis at extraordinary personal cost, bearing the emotional burden and health risks of potential daily exposure to a deadly virus. Yet nearly a year into this crisis, frontline workers remain under protected and undercompensated — especially the estimated more than 5 million undocumented workers in essential industries who have endured an additional fear: the possibility of deportation.
Essential workers have kept our nation running during the Covid-19 crisis at extraordinary personal cost, bearing the emotional burden and health risks of potential daily exposure to a deadly virus. Yet nearly a year into this crisis, frontline workers remain under protected and undercompensated — especially the estimated more than 5 million undocumented workers in essential industries who have endured an additional fear: the possibility of deportation.
