“More than 200,000 DACA recipients are essential infrastructure workers” including “41,700 DACA recipients in the healthcare industry”
Richard Durbin
U.S. Senator, D-Ill.. Claim dated 4 Feb 2021.
PolitiFact rated thisMostly True
What PolitiFact found
The Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank, estimated that there are 202,500 recipients of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals who work in essential jobs amid the pandemic.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Richard Durbin (U.S. Senator, D-Ill.) made this claim around 4 February 2021. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 9 February 2021, 5 days later. Its rating was “Mostly True”.
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