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Checked by PolitiFact7 May 2020United States Immigration

Kirsten Gillibrand, U.S. Senator, D-N.Y.

“Immigrants make up a majority of essential workers in places like New York City.”

PolitiFact rated this: Mostly True

PolitiFact says: This number is backed up by a New York City comptroller’s office study that found that 53% of all "frontline" workers in the city are immigrants. However, this is not the only possible definition.