NPR’s Marketplace: Millions of Undocumented Immigrants File Taxes. Now Their Data Could Be Used to Deport Them.
- In Massachusetts, about 5,000 nursing home employees are immigrants under Temporary Protected Status, and losing these protections could worsen workforce shortages.
- Forty percent of staff in Massachusetts nursing homes are immigrants who fill critical positions, mainly from Haiti, as the senior population increases.
- Researchers, including Dr. Steffie Woolhandler, warned that removing immigrant workers could significantly harm the healthcare workforce, particularly in nursing homes.
- The Trump administration claims its immigration policies reflect voter desires, while experts caution that such policies may repel skilled healthcare workers from choosing to work in the U.S.
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NPR’s Marketplace: Millions of Undocumented Immigrants File Taxes. Now Their Data Could Be Used to Deport Them.
Millions of undocumented immigrants pay taxes every year. And the confidentiality of the addresses and other personal data submitted to the IRS by taxpaying undocumented immigrants has remained protected for decades. But the Donald Trump administration is looking to change that, challenging a decadeslong firewall around taxpayer data.
Trump’s immigration crackdown could worsen Northeast’s health care workforce shortage, study finds - The Boston Globe
Nearly 8 percent of medical personnel across hospitals, outpatient centers, nursing homes, and home care agencies in the region were non-citizens in 2024.
JAMA study estimates Trump deportations could cost health industry over 1 million workers - Political Signal
The Trump administration’s aggressive deportation strategy could cost understaffed U.S. medical providers more than 1 million non-citizen workers, including a third who are undocumented, according to an estimate published Thursday. The analysis of Census Bureau data in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that 3.4 million out of over 20 million U.S. health […] The post JAMA study estimates Trump deportations could cost health in…
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