How Trump’s immigration plans could affect care for your elderly parents | CNN Business

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Terry Hodge would have a tough time caring for the 150 or so elderly women at Bethany Health Care Center without the dozens of immigrant nursing assistants, housekeepers, dietary aides and other staffers at the Framingham, Massachusetts, facility.

More than 40% of her employees were born abroad, hailing from 26 countries, including Haiti, Guatemala, El Salvador and Ghana, said Hodge, the center’s administrator. Among the certified nursing assistants, the figure is 84%.

They are workers whom Bethany “can’t afford to lose,” she said, noting they help residents get out of bed, escort

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