immigrants

The industry has long relied on immigrants to bolster its ranks, and they’ll be critical to meeting future staffing needs, experts say. But as the baby boom generation fills beds, policymakers are slow to open new pathways for foreign workers.

The COVID-19 shot joins a list of well-established vaccines required by the U.S., aimed at preventing dangerous diseases such as polio and varicella (chickenpox).

A researcher studying the effects of extreme heat on agricultural workers is concerned that a lack of labor protections and legal status contribute to the deterioration of their health and dignity.

Many are essential workers at high risk of exposure to the coronavirus — and the pandemic’s economic crash — with no direct access to billions of dollars in federal pandemic relief.

On May 30, David Cruz died of COVID-19, before he could finish remodeling his Yakima home. Cruz, 60, had only replaced about a quarter of the old darkened…

The Supreme Court will decide this month whether the Trump administration can include a question about citizenship on the 2020 Census, and Florida...

Should doctors warn patients of a policy threat that may not come to pass? That's the question pending, as the Trump administration weighs whether to deny green cards to immigrants on Medicaid.

Despite laws guaranteeing access to health care, non-English speakers in the U.S. often rely on family and friends as ad hoc interpreters — and may misunderstand what doctors think they're conveying.

The Senate Judiciary Committee is demanding answers from federal immigration officials about the Trump administration's separation of migrant children…

Police in Florida say they've arrested six people who bound themselves with bicycle locks outside a federal office in a protest of the U.S. Immigration…