FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 16, 2026
MEDIA CONTACT: Daniela Perez, [email protected]
NEW YORK – In a story released Jan. 15, NBC News highlighted how escalating immigration enforcement is fueling fear and instability for immigrant care workers while putting the nation’s care infrastructure at risk.
The segment follows Margarita, a Venezuelan home care worker who has spent years providing round-the-clock care to children and people with disabilities as a live-in caregiver. Margarita has relied on Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to live and work in the United States, but ongoing uncertainty around immigration policy has left her fearful about her ability to continue caring for others or to remain safely in the country.
The reporting underscores a reality long documented: immigrant domestic workers are disproportionately vulnerable to exploitation, including unpaid labor, excessive hours, and unsafe working conditions – risks that are compounded when workers face the threat of losing legal protections or work authorization.
Ai-jen Poo, president of the National Domestic Workers Alliance, emphasized that immigration enforcement destabilizes families and communities nationwide.
“When you have a workforce that is a third immigrant, that is really the backbone of your care infrastructure,” Poo said. “Then, those workers are experiencing an inability to take public transportation, to leave their homes, to go to work, that has an impact on the entire system of care.”
As the NBC report makes clear, threats to TPS and heightened enforcement are already shrinking the domestic workforce at a time when demand for care is growing rapidly. Without protections for immigrant caregivers, the U.S. risks deepening an already fragile care crisis.
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