The impact of Covid-19 on immigrant workers

“This is a group of people who are figuring out how to pay their
bills every month. And now they’re going to be faced with a more
difficult challenge, and the government isn’t coming in to help
them.” J.D. Long-Garcia is a senior editor at America working out
of Phoenix, Az. He covers the south west, where the Catholic Church
is growing. During the Covid-19 pandemic, his writing has focused
on immigrant workers, an especially vulnerable group to the current
economic disruption. “In some sense today, social distancing is a
privilege. It’s for the privileged class. And that’s not this group
of people. If they social distance, they aren’t going to have any
money.” J.D. also discusses his journalistic approach to covering
communities that are a part of his own life and heritage, and
explains how undocumented immigrants bring much more to America
than they take away. Don’t forget to join Jesuitical’s Facebook
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