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Senior Living Facility in Distress as Immigrant Caregivers Are Forced Out
Really, the original headline was “How Trump’s Immigration Crackdown Is Hurting Elder Care”. Perhaps that TDS was just a bit much for the NY Times?
Channing House, a senior living community just a mile from Stanford University, is home to pioneering scientists, tech executives and inventors. But during a recent meeting, its residents confronted a problem they felt powerless to fix: the sudden loss of their caregivers to immigration policies.
“Our work force is being drastically disrupted, relationships are being severed and lives are being upended right now,” said Rhonda Bekkedahl, the center’s chief executive, who convened the gathering in June that was attended by about half of the 250 residents of the community in Palo Alto, Calif.
The Trump administration’s immigration crackdown is colliding with a demographic reality. Americans are aging rapidly and living longer, creating soaring demand for elder care when the industry is already buckling under the weight of chronic labor shortages.
Millions of immigrants, eligible to work in the United States, fill positions across the elder care industry such as nurses, dietitians, fitness instructors and maintenance technicians. And countless undocumented immigrants care for seniors in their homes, part of a vast informal economy.
If your work plan is dependent on illegal aliens and temporary visitors, many of them illegals given work permits, well, the people who run the business should be fired, because it is a straight gamble to think that every administration will allow this to continue.
But, the point here is to enrage bleeding hearts, and maybe convert some on the edge. All while forgetting what the Law says.
If they want to be taken care of by foreigners, maybe they should move to a foreign country?
rc,
They want to be taken care of, period. Mad King Donny wishes they would just die and decrease the surplus population.
He leads a proud Cult of Ignorance.
Doesn’t the Senior Care industry have enough money to pay off your Mad King Donny? They need to step up, cha-ching!!
Donny has granted unofficial amnesty to Agriculture, Meat Processing and Construction industries’ hiring of undocumented workers.
ICE focuses on hassling Hispanics in blue state cities. There must not be any effective home care, restaurant worker or gardener lobbies.
On average, for every 1000 “illegals” captured, exactly 0 (zero) employers are arrested. How weird is that?
King Donny and his hierophants are hypocrites, right? (that IS rhetorical).