Trump’s Immigration Crackdown Puts Most Common US Job at Risk

President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown threatens to shrink the workforce for one of America’s fastest growing jobs: Home health and personal care aides.

Demand for such care is expected to swell as the US population ages, and the industry has increasingly relied on immigrants to fill home health positions. Foreign-born people comprise roughly one in five US workers, yet they account for more than 40% of home health aides and nearly 30% of personal care employment, according to US government data.

Trump’s push to strip hundreds of thousands of foreign workers of work authorizations, ramp up deportations and ...