Check out the media’s new reason for not deporting illegal immigrants:

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Sometimes I read a headline from the media and think, “How does The Babylon Bee stay in business?” But then I dig into it and find it horribly true.

This headline from Axios is one of those stories.

Specifically, they make the claim that if Trump starts deporting illegal immigrants, there won’t be anyone to take care of our aging parents in home health and nursing homes.

Some of the earliest and lasting effects from President-elect Trump’s promised immigration crackdowns would be in home health and long-term care, both of which rely on a substantial number of immigrants and undocumented workers.

They cite the work of David Grabowski who studied the number of immigrants working as nursing assistants in long-term care positions.

‘If you were to tighten up immigration or begin deporting individuals, it’s going to lower the available workforce, and this is only going to add to an already challenging labor situation,’ he said.

The really concerning part is not immigrants working in healthcare. Healthcare is a leading sponsor of work visas for skilled laborers from around the world. That’s a normal part of the industry, and the Trump administration is not going to start deporting those folks.

The concerning part is that there really are a lot of illegal aliens working in healthcare.

As of 2018, there were 280,000 illegal aliens working in healthcare, primarily as nursing assistants (3.7% of all nursing assistants) and home healthcare workers (6.9% of all home healthcare workers).

And those percentages grew substantially during the pandemic as older healthcare workers retired early and Biden forced millions of the remaining healthcare workers out of the field with his vaccine mandates.

So, yeah, there are going to be some problems in long-term care as the folks here illegally get deported.

But Trump isn’t creating these problems. These are problems created by the Democrats who forced healthcare workers out of the industry while simultaneously looking the other way as the healthcare industries broke the law and hired illegal immigrants to fill that gap.