07/10/2026
HCP's President & CEO, Hon. Kevin Thomas with 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East on the coming caregiver crisis if TPS ends. "What is being taken away is not a document. We are talking about all those workers across this state who hold licenses, pay taxes, pass background checks, and do the hardest, most intimate work in health care. These are not people who took something from this country. These are people who have been holding this country's most vulnerable citizens in their arms."
"To our Members of Congress: this is not a partisan matter. Aging is not partisan. Disability is not partisan. The math is not partisan. We are asking Congress to act — to extend protections, to create a stable pathway for the essential care workforce, and to recognize that the health of New Yorkers is inseparable from the status of the people who care for them.
We are not asking for charity. We are asking Washington to look at the people who hold this state together — and to have the courage to say out loud what every family in New York already knows.
They belong here."