A federal immigration crackdown is worsening New Jersey’s health care labor crisis, forcing thousands of immigrant workers out of jobs, and putting the state’s most vulnerable residents at risk.

Among the workers is a mother of three living in Metuchen who arrived from Haiti in January 2023. As a home health aide, she cared for the sick, including a paralyzed elderly woman who was her primary client for two years.

“I wash them, feed them, give them medicine, clean their sheets. I go with them if they have to do therapy at the hospital,” she said, asking that her name be withheld because of a pending immigration case.

She is one of thousands of immigrants across New Jersey who have lost legal status, and, with it, their livelihoods. Since taking office, President Donald Trump and his adm

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