Nine months ago, in a pre-pandemic world, ICE agents raided a chicken processing plant in Mississippi, arresting 680 workers in a single day. Many of these undocumented workers will be deported, their U.S. citizen children along with them, and not a single company official has been charged. Last week, President Donald Trump invoked the Defense Production Act, essentially compelling workers to return to meat-processing plants, which have become hot spots for COVID-19.

As Americans, we can all agree that our immigration system is broken, though we may disagree as to how to fix it. Now more than ever, it is time that we acknowledge the essential but precarious role undocumented workers play in our economy, and, specifically, call into question provisions in the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act that exclude U.S. citizen children and spouses from receiving rebates if they have undocumented family members.

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