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