Filipinos make up a large percentage of the healthcare workforce, which includes undocumented people
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n the Philippines, she spent three years providing end-of-life care for a family’s grandmother. When the grandmother died, family members told the healthcare worker to arrange her own way to the United States, where they operated home healthcare facilities.
In California, they promised, she would have a place to stay and a stable job. They would look after her just as she had cared for their grandmother.
In 2018, the caregiver – who asked to be identified as Bella – arrived in Los Angeles on a tourist visa. She imagined herself working in healthcare facilities tucked in verdant hills or in beach communities.
