Sen. Alex Padilla introduces legislation to create pathway to citizenship for essential workers

This would benefit 5.2 million undocumented immigrants who worked throughout the pandemic bringing essential services. “Every day during the COVID-19 pandemic, more than five million essential workers without permanent legal status kept Americans healthy and fed and safe while risking their own health,” Padilla said in a news conference joined by immigrant advocates and labor leaders from the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights, United Farm Workers, and others groups representing essential workers. Read more