Arnulfo De La Cruz is the president of SEIU 2015, a union that represents about 500,000 long-term caregivers in California’s program for low-income seniors.
Nearly half of in-home care workers in the state are immigrants, he said, many with temporary protected status, meaning they are allowed to stay because the government has designated their countries unsafe to return to.
Read more at The New York Times“If their status were to be adjusted or they lost T.P.S., it would have a devastating impact on the care economy,” Mr. De La Cruz said.