Opinion | How Democrats can protect the immigrants on the pandemic’s front lines

Since covid-19 hit the US, an estimated 5.2 million undocumented immigrants have labored as important employees — together with 400,000 agricultural employees; 400,000 cleansing employees; 300,000 packers, stockers and shippers of important items; and 100,000 dwelling well being and private care aides. About 29,000 recipients of the Deferred Motion for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program — immigrants delivered to the US with out papers as youngsters — have been engaged on the entrance traces as physicians, residents, nurses, paramedics or medical college students.