How to prepare if a parent or legal guardian is detained or deported
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Suma Setty, a senior policy analyst on the Immigration and Immigrant Families team at the Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP), said she’s concerned about how adverse childhood experiences, or ACES — a framework linking traumatic circumstances during childhood to long-term impacts in adulthood — affect immigrant and mixed-status families during immigration crackdowns.
“There’s been so much research that connects immigration enforcement policies to negative wellbeing outcomes for children,” Setty said. “Even just the threat [of deportation or detention of a loved one] is enough to impact a child.”
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