Nursing homes struggle with Trump's immigration crackdown

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Source: AP

Updated 9:06 AM EDT, July 13, 2025


NEW YORK (AP) — Nursing homes already struggling to recruit staff are now grappling with President Donald Trump’s attack on one of their few reliable sources of workers: immigration.

Facilities for older adults and disabled people are reporting the sporadic loss of employees who have had their legal status revoked by Trump. But they fear even more dramatic impacts are ahead as pipelines of potential workers slow to a trickle with an overall downturn in legal immigration.

“We feel completely beat up right now,” says Deke Cateau, CEO of A.G. Rhodes, which operates three nursing homes in the Atlanta area, with one-third of the staff made up of foreign-born people from about three dozen countries. “The pipeline is getting smaller and smaller.”

Eight of Cateau’s workers are expected to be forced to leave after having their Temporary Protected Status, or TPS, revoked. TPS allows people already living in the U.S. to stay and work legally if their home countries are unsafe due to civil unrest or natural disasters and during the Biden administration, the designation was expanded to cover people from a dozen countries, including large numbers from Venezuela and Haiti.

Read more: https://apnews.com/article/immigration-nursing-homes-trump-elderly-6aa6a1d1e409859fb7e5c244ddbb0c8f

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1. It happened in our county

The Border Patrol harassed Hispanic people so badly many left the area. They were legally here but all it took was brown skin to have the BP spend the day staring at them through binoculars where they worked, shopped, and lived.

The nursing homes had to contract with an employment agency in a city, for workers 60 miles away. They probably needed housing assistance because our area has a severe housing shortage. Their wages were higher and the nursing homes had to pay a fee for every hour their employees worked. The fees for the nursing home residents likely went up.

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2. Want to guess who has been taken care of granny.

Granny can just go harvest those vegs.