Jun 09 2026
For Immediate Release: Tuesday, June 9, 2026
Media Contact: Daniela Perez, [email protected]
WASHINGTON – In response to the final passage of a reconciliation package that directs nearly $70 billion in taxpayer dollars toward immigration enforcement, including tens of billions for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the National Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA) released the following statement:
“Domestic workers – nannies, house cleaners, and home care workers – make all other work possible, and they deserve a government that invests in their and their community’s safety and dignity. The recently passed reconciliation package does the opposite.
This bill does nothing to lower the cost of groceries, rent, health care, or child care, and nothing to strengthen care for the working-class families who depend on it.
The money passed in the bill flows to agencies that already operate with little oversight, and the bill sets no new limits on how they use it. The expansion of immigration enforcement means more policing in everyday life, and that reaches well beyond immigrant communities. When enforcement ramps up, parents think twice about driving their children to school, workers think twice about showing up to a job or reporting wage theft or abuse, and people across our communities are pulled back from participating fully in the places they belong.
Domestic workers and their communities will keep organizing and defending one another. We will keep advocating for a country that invests in the care economy, living wages, paid leave, health care, and the workers who sustain our homes. Every worker, and every member of our communities, deserves to live and work with dignity and without fear.”
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