The other essential workers

We owe our deepest gratitude to the doctors, nurses, paramedics and caregivers who are fighting COVID-19 head on, putting their health at risk and that of their loved ones to help members of our community who have gotten infected by this virus. However, in this episode I invite you to look at this crisis from another perspective, a perspective that includes the farm workers who are working on the fields making sure that our food supply chain is not interrupted. They're considered essential workers by the Department of Homeland Security, but many of them are also illegal. So, for the time being, ICE will leave them alone, but when the crisis is over, they will be on the run again, and if they lose their job because of COVID-19, they will not get any financial aid from the federal government because of their legal status.