Alma Brigido has been out of a job for over five weeks after the Pittsburgh restaurant where she cooked for four years closed due to the coronavirus shutdown.

Now the 35-year-old mother of three has run out of savings. She doesnt qualify for unemployment benefits since shes undocumented. She also got nothing from the federal governments $2 trillion relief package last month which sent $1,200 checks to low-income Americans, but excluded millions of immigrants without Social Security numbers.

The situation is really bad, Brigido said. She and her kids, ages 15, 12 and 8, are scared to go out because they dont have health insurance. They visited a food bank for the first time last week, where they got some vegetables, fruit and bread.

Im worried because I have three mouths to feed, she added. Without a job, without money, what am I going to do? When is this going to end?

Brigido is one of about 11.3 million undocumented people in the U.S. who have been hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic and related economic crisis.

Undocumented immigrants are overrepresented in industries that have experienced massive layoffs due to stay-at-home orders, including the restaurant and hotel industries, as well as domestic workers like nannies and house cleaners . About three-quarters of undocumented people in the U.S. are Latinx , and around half of Latinx people in the U.S. say someone in their household has taken a pay cut or lost a job because of the coronavirus pandemic.

Undocumented workers also make up significant portions of the workers who have been deemed essential from farmworkers to food delivery people to building cleaners who are still going to work, risking their lives in a pandemic while millions of Americans stay home. Only 1 in 6 Latinx workers have jobs that allow them to work from home . And a staggering 38% of immigrant workers are in low-income households many earning meager wages and working in jobs that often arent providing hazard pay or paid sick leave .

While California and New York City are offering some help in the form of one-time payments of $400 to $500 to certain undocumented workers, these are rare exceptions. Democratic lawmakers in Congress are fighting to include undocumented immigrants in the next stimulus package , but so far the federal government has offered no relief to these families. Meanwhile advocacy groups like the National Domestic Workers Alliance and Justice for Migrant Women are rushing to raise much-needed funds for immigrants left behind.

We just want the government to recognize our humanity, Brigido said.