Congress is debating whether to impose new restrictions on immigration as the price of a deal to provide new aid to Ukraine and Israel. But some of the biggest victims of this misguided policy will be frail older adults, younger people living with disabilities, and their families. For their sakes, Congress should make immigration easier, not harder, for the nurses and personal care aides who help them.
The US faces a desperate shortage of care workers. Hospitals, nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and home care agencies and families all are competing for a shrinking number of willing workers. And the US is vying with the rest of the rapidly-aging developed world for the same aides and nurses.
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