For the first time in what feels like a long time, change is in the air.

As vaccination rates go up, friends and family members are making plans
to see each other again for the first time in months. Businesses are
opening back up. And the extended sunshine of longer days is helping
flowers bloom and crops ripen in fields nationwide. But there's one
thing that remains the same.

Across the country, immigrant essential workers are still helping our
nation respond to and recover from the pandemic.

**Tell your Senators it's time for compassionate solutions for essential
immigrants.**

As many as 30,000 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals

(DACA) recipients are on the frontlines of the pandemic response as
healthcare workers
.
130,000 Temporary Protected Status (TPS) recipients are contributing as
essential workers
.
And as much as 70% of the agricultural labor force

that continues to keep the food supply running is undocumented.

Despite already living, working and contributing in this country,
Dreamers, TPS holders and farmworkers alike have virtually no way of
becoming citizens. But even that could soon change.

**Call your Senators now and urge them to support Dreamers, TPS holders,
and Farmworkers.**

Last month, the House of Representatives passed legislation

that would support immigrant communities by providing them with
protection from deportation and an opportunity to earn citizenship. It
could make a world of difference for countless people.

For the COVID nurse

from Dubai. The mother

of three and office cleaner from El Salvador. The farmworker
in the
fields of California helping ring in strawberry season.

The Senate has the opportunity to recognize the essential contributions
of countless immigrants by passing legislation that would bring them and
their families out from the shadows and empower them to fully
participate in their communities. Tell them it's time to act.

Thanks for everything you do to support a path forward for bipartisan
immigration reform,

Joanna

**Joanna Taylor, Communications Manager**

**National Immigration Forum**

 

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