{"content":[{"text":"“They’re disproportionately represented in essential jobs,” said Donald Kerwin, executive director of the center. “They","bbox":{"left":0.058824,"top":0.044635,"width":0.8783810000000001,"height":0.015380999999999999}},{"text":"work front-line jobs, often risking their lives. They’re not being paid well and are treated poorly by national policies.","bbox":{"left":0.058824,"top":0.074938,"width":0.864201,"height":0.015381000000000006}},{"text":"We owe immigrants a lot. We don’t acknowledge that enough.”","bbox":{"left":0.058824,"top":0.105241,"width":0.466584,"height":0.015381000000000006}},{"text":"According to the report, 16 percent of U.S. health care workers are immigrants. In states that have been hardest hit by","bbox":{"left":0.058824,"top":0.159219,"width":0.869546,"height":0.015381000000000006}},{"text":"the pandemic, the rates are even higher. In New York, for example, 33 percent of health care workers are immigrants,","bbox":{"left":0.058824,"top":0.189522,"width":0.8655930000000001,"height":0.015381000000000006}},{"text":"and in California, the rate is 32 percent.","bbox":{"left":0.058824,"top":0.219825,"width":0.293136,"height":0.015381000000000006}},{"text":"In the agricultural sector, 31 percent of the total workforce are immigrants, and The New York Times reports that about","bbox":{"left":0.058824,"top":0.273802,"width":0.880039,"height":0.015380999999999978}},{"text":"half of all field workers are undocumented migrants. There are also high rates of immigrant jobholders in food","bbox":{"left":0.058824,"top":0.304105,"width":0.8161050000000001,"height":0.015380999999999978}},{"text":"manufacturing and processing (26 percent), grocery wholesalers (26 percent) and retail grocery and food industries (17","bbox":{"left":0.058824,"top":0.334408,"width":0.878441,"height":0.015380999999999978}},{"text":"percent).","bbox":{"left":0.058824,"top":0.364711,"width":0.064972,"height":0.015380999999999978}},{"text":"“All of the jobs that we don’t pay attention to and don’t think about, these are essential jobs,” Mr. Kerwin","bbox":{"left":0.058824,"top":0.418688,"width":0.780316,"height":0.015380999999999978}},{"text":"told America. “And immigrants fill them. How are we paying immigrants? Very poorly. And it’s even worse during the","bbox":{"left":0.058824,"top":0.448991,"width":0.882183,"height":0.015380999999999978}},{"text":"crisis, when their essential work is even more important.”","bbox":{"left":0.058824,"top":0.479294,"width":0.42560000000000003,"height":0.015380999999999978}},{"text":"“These are people who are working while you and I stay home. They’re a vital part of the economy, both immigrants and","bbox":{"left":0.06477,"top":0.533272,"width":0.870432,"height":0.015380999999999978}},{"text":"refugees.”","bbox":{"left":0.463328,"top":0.562628,"width":0.07334100000000005,"height":0.015380999999999978}},{"text":"Last week, four","bbox":{"left":0.790928,"top":0.591984,"width":0.11509400000000003,"height":0.015380999999999978}},{"text":"bishops who lead the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ efforts on immigration issued a statement urging","bbox":{"left":0.058824,"top":0.622287,"width":0.801266,"height":0.015380999999999978}},{"text":"government leaders to support farmworkers. “We would like to express our sincere gratitude and prayers for the many","bbox":{"left":0.058824,"top":0.65259,"width":0.8718640000000001,"height":0.015380999999999978}},{"text":"essential workers throughout the country, helping us receive our medicines, groceries and other fundamental needs","bbox":{"left":0.058824,"top":0.682893,"width":0.846607,"height":0.015380999999999978}},{"text":"during this difficult time,” they said in their statement. “We would like to highlight the reality of migrant farmworker","bbox":{"left":0.058824,"top":0.713196,"width":0.8656100000000001,"height":0.015380999999999978}},{"text":"communities and honor their heroic role amidst the many challenges they face during this crisis.”","bbox":{"left":0.058824,"top":0.743499,"width":0.718358,"height":0.015380999999999978}},{"text":"Ashley Feasley, the director of migration policy and public affairs for the U.S.C.C.B., said both documented and","bbox":{"left":0.058824,"top":0.797476,"width":0.831278,"height":0.015380999999999978}},{"text":"undocumented immigrants work in the health care sector. Of the estimated 280,000 undocumented workers in health","bbox":{"left":0.058824,"top":0.827779,"width":0.860029,"height":0.015380999999999978}},{"text":"care, for example, nearly 45,000 are working as nursing assistants and nearly 30,000 work as home health aides,","bbox":{"left":0.058824,"top":0.858082,"width":0.829403,"height":0.015380999999999978}},{"text":"according to 2018 data from the U.S. Census Bureau.","bbox":{"left":0.058824,"top":0.888385,"width":0.393771,"height":0.015380999999999978}}],"images_bbox":[],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[]}