AMERICANS WILL NEED IMMIGRANTS FOR OUR LONG TERM NURSING HOME CARE
Will all the anti-immigrants out there please sign a pledge that they will only live in nursing homes that employ American-born workers? And, uh, add, American-born home health care providers to that list. Then it will be fun to watch their kids ship them off to a Mexican or Indian nursing home (both of those countries are now becoming popular destinations for Americans looking for more affordable and high quality service).
OK, I'm being a little mean, but the report just issued by Brandeis University Professor Walter Leutz makes it pretty clear that we're going to be completely dependent on immigrants to care for us when we're old. I have no doubt we'll come to that realization eventually. The only question is whether we change immigration policies soon enough to head off a lot of the damage.
Read more: http://www.ailf.org/ipc/infocus/infocus_0708.pdf
OK, I'm being a little mean, but the report just issued by Brandeis University Professor Walter Leutz makes it pretty clear that we're going to be completely dependent on immigrants to care for us when we're old. I have no doubt we'll come to that realization eventually. The only question is whether we change immigration policies soon enough to head off a lot of the damage.
Read more: http://www.ailf.org/ipc/infocus/infocus_0708.pdf
