PHI Midterm Policy Brief Series: Support Immigrants

Immigrant direct care workers are facing mounting pressure from federal immigration policy, with consequences that extend far beyond the immigrants themselves—to the millions of older adults, people with disabilities, and families who depend on their care. This brief, the second in PHI’s three-part midterm policy series, examines how immigration restrictions, enforcement actions, and cuts to immigrant eligibility for Medicaid and other public programs are pushing immigrant workers out of the field and eroding the pipeline of new workers the long-term care system urgently needs.

Support Immigrants assesses these policy developments and their impact on the direct care workforce, and sets out concrete recommendations for policymakers, from halting and reversing punitive immigration policies to developing thoughtful immigration pathways and investing in a national direct care workforce strategy.

Click here to read the first brief in this series, Restore Medicaid, which examines how Medicaid cuts are destabilizing the direct care workforce.