Many of the state’s nearly half a million undocumented immigrants are working essential jobs during the pandemic but are excluded from federal stimulus payments and public benefits. That’s one finding in a new report by the immigrant rights group, which conducted a survey of roughly 200 immigrant families in the state and discovered widespread hardship caused by this health crisis. Make the Road NJ Director Sara Cullinane walks Senior Correspondent Briana Vannozzi through the findings.
Survey: Many NJ immigrants face ‘dire situation’ during pandemic
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An Emmy award-winning journalist, Briana Vannozzi serves as the anchor for NJ Spotlight News, the newsroom of NJ PBS. She's worked in several capacities since joining the news division in 2012, as interim anchor and senior correspondent after years of general assignment reporting as a multimedia journalist. Vannozzi began her television journalism career by cutting her teeth on New Jersey State House politics for New Jersey Network News, and later as a news radio correspondent at FM News 101.9 covering crime and politics in New York City. Her work has taken her to national presidential nominating conventions, Capitol Hill, up and down the East Coast and every corner of the Garden State. She's interviewed every New Jersey governor dating back to Jon Corzine and moderated numerous political debates and forums. Her work has also earned awards from the New Jersey Society of Professional Journalists and the Philadelphia Press Association. A Burlington County native, she's honored to be serving and covering her home state and raising her family there.