Democrats Call For Fast-Tracking Citizenship For Undocumented Essential Workers | HuffPost - 0 views
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Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-Texas) and Sen.-designate Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) are pushing for undocumented essential workers on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic to be fast-tracked for U.S. citizenship.
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Padilla’s own parents came to the U.S. from Mexico in the 1960s and worked in restaurants and house cleaning.
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“These are people who feed us, clean our homes and hospitals and offices… and they do all this while living in fear of deportation, exploitation and now of this pandemic,”
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