"The lawmakers provided examples of childcare workers ensnared by Trump's deportation push, including a nanny in Wisconsin, an asylum seeker with no criminal record who was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) after a routine check-in, and immigrant teachers at a preschool in Washington DC who lost their work authorizations and were forced to quit due to TPS terminations by the Trump administration."
"Trump also revoked protections for childcare facilities and other sensitive locations from ICE raids, and the letter cited cases in Chicago, Illinois and Minnesota, where ICE performed arrests or conducted visits to childcare sites, which have caused staff declines. These impacts, the letter explains, have long-reaching effects on the rest of the US economy, causing parents to reduce work hours or leave the workforce altogether."
Forty-eight Democratic lawmakers led by Senators Elizabeth Warren and Tammy Duckworth and Representative Mike Quigley demanded that the Department of Health and Human Services’ Administration for Children and Families assess how Trump-era immigration policies are worsening childcare shortages and costs. About 20% of the childcare workforce are immigrants, reaching 70% in some regions; policy changes including termination of temporary protected status, elimination of lawful immigration pathways, and immigration raids could reduce the childcare workforce by an estimated 15%. Revocation of sensitive-location protections and ICE activity at childcare sites have caused staff declines, forcing parents to reduce hours or leave the workforce and amplifying economic impacts.
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