Americans are aging. Within five years, 20% of the U.S. population will be over the age of 65. In the next 25 years, the number of citizens over the age of 80 is expected to triple.
Many older Americans, particularly the oldest, need help with daily life-everything from dressing and showering to cooking and cleaning. Assistance, however, is hard to come by. At-home caregivers are expensive. Institutional settings, also expensive, are routinely understaffed.
Thousands of noncitizens provide eldercare in home and institutional settings. Many of these noncitizens have work authorization pursuant to Temporary Protected Status (TPS), an immigration program that President Trump, unsuccessfully, endeavored to restrict during his first administration. Now back in office, the Trump administration has already announced the end of TPS for over one million noncitizens.
