Why the US has so many Filipino nurses

The US colonized a country and built a labor supply. Filipino nurses have been disproportionately affected by the coronavirus in the US. Thats because they make up an outsized portion of the nursing workforce. About onethird of all foreignborn nurses in the US are Filipino. Since 1960, 150, 000 Filipino nurses have come to work in the US. And thats because over the past century the US built a pipeline that draws nurses from the Philippines every time it faces a shortage. This system began in the early 2