Congress’s latest coronavirus relief package, the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, is the largest economic relief bill in U.S. history. The CARES Act unfairly and unwisely leaves out hard-working immigrants, effectively treating them as expendable second class citizens.

Immigrants are keeping Americans alive and fed as our country suffers from the Coronavirus pandemic. We cannot turn our backs on the workers who are on the frontlines fighting this pandemic. It would be morally unconscionable and irresponsible to deny immigrants and their families access to the social safety net during the health and economic crises. Our nation's leaders must extend the protections won in the CARES Act to all taxpayers - including tax-paying immigrants.