I can remember when Donald Trump campaigned on deporting noncitizens who are “the worst of the worst.” Violent criminals? Sure – I can understand that.
But now, in an effort to “up the numbers,” Team Trump is going after people who have been granted legal work status. In some cases, it’s going to affect senior caretakers looking after aging Americans.
Via NOTUS:
Anne-Mercie Blot, a naturalized U.S. citizen from Haiti, isn’t at risk of deportation, but she’s scared of what could happen when even more of her nursing home co-workers lose their employment authorization early next year.
The Miami nursing home is staffed mostly by immigrants from Haiti, she said. Some of them are citizens or green card holders, but others hold work permits through the temporary protected status program, which allows people from countries facing disasters or strife to stay and work legally.
On Feb. 3, they and more than 330,000 other Haitians are set to lose those protections, and the nursing home will lose health care providers, kitchen staff and housekeepers who take care of its aging residents.
In the first year of his second term, President Donald Trump has expanded his deportation efforts beyond the “worst of the worst” and increased the number of people without legal status by terminating several programs that allowed immigrants to enter the country and work legally.
According to analysis of a 2023 Census survey from KFF, noncitizen immigrants comprise 13% of immigrants providing long-term care in people’s homes. Who’s going to take care of the elderly when those folks are kicked out?
In related news, nursing homes will no longer have to maintain a registered nurse on-site around the clock as of February 2, 2026, thanks to the Trump administration repealing the federal requirement.
This really doesn’t help anyone. Read more here.
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