UnidosUS President and CEO: Ambitious American Jobs Plan Must Include Latinos, Legal Status for Immigrant Essential Workers

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Massive investment would transform lives, families, and communities

WASHINGTON, DC—In response to President Biden’s unveiling of his ambitious American Jobs Plan, UnidosUS President and CEO Janet Murguía issued the following statement:

“I applaud this appropriately ambitious opening salvo to modernizing our nation’s infrastructure, and we at UnidosUS will work hard to ensure that this bold investment fulfills the president’s commitment to pandemic recovery, rebuilding America, and racial equity. For too long, Latinos and other people of color have worked to build our country and help carry it through hard times often without reaping the benefits of their contributions. We fully expect Hispanics to help carry out our nation’s post-pandemic rebuilding and, in return, experience better roads, bridges, broadband, schools and health centers, cleaner water, and a resilient electrical grid in their neighborhoods.

“The American Jobs Plan must also reduce poverty and homelessness, protect and fortify our essential workforce and create good-paying jobs for the unemployed, ensuring that measures reach communities most in need. It must particularly bring stability to undocumented essential workers who have stood up for us all, creating a path to legal status and citizenship. In the end, if we do this right, UnidosUS and our nearly 300 Affiliate organizations across the country will be critical actors in transforming lives, families, and communities with this historic investment in our future.”