ナショナルジオグラフィックさんのインスタグラム写真 - (ナショナルジオグラフィックInstagram)「Photos by @edkashi / Portraits of immigrants impacted by the pandemic. (1) A.V., 43, met us in the small, tidy house she rents. Her embrace of the American life is complete. As a shift supervisor at a major retail pharmacy, she's been paying taxes for 18 of the 20 years she's lived in the United States, since coming from Mexico City. She has two American-born children, but because she is undocumented, no one in her family qualified for financial relief from the CARES Act. Her husband, a day laborer, caught COVID-19 and lost three months of work. Of all the setbacks, nothing disappointed A.V. more than having to postpone her dream of buying a home. She was approved for a mortgage and had a down payment ready—until the pandemic hit and her realtor told her that the company would no longer work with undocumented buyers. (2) G.R., 52, originally from Puebla, Mexico, is a house cleaner for mostly Orthodox Jewish families in the community of Lakewood, New Jersey. She's had to stop working since the pandemic hit in March and lost all her clients. She's struggling to support her two school-age daughters and is behind on rent. (3) F.M.X., 66, is also from Puebla, where he upholstered car interiors. He collapsed during his journey into the states through the Sonoran Desert in 2008, surviving only because his smuggler came back for him. He's not been able to return to his groundskeeping job at the raceway in Englishtown, New Jersey, since its closure due to the pandemic. He was infected with COVID-19 in March and hospitalized; he's relied on donations for food and medicine since. His two brushes with death helped make up his mind about his future: He plans to return to Mexico. (4) M.R., 52, was a farmer from Puebla, and he's been in America for 17 years. He works as a day laborer for contractors. He's undocumented, and the loss of work from the pandemic has made it impossible for him to send money back to Mexico to his wife and eight children, who he hasn’t seen in 14 years. He plans to return home. #immigrants #pandemic #workers #Americaundercovid #immigrantworkers」1月27日 4時37分