“Immigrants make up a majority of essential workers in places like New York City.”
What PolitiFact found
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.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Kirsten Gillibrand (U.S. Senator, D-N.Y.) made this claim around 21 April 2020. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 7 May 2020, 16 days later. Its rating was “Mostly True”.
Kirsten Gillibrand has 5 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 0 of them false or fake, 3 misleading or mixed and 2 true.
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