Parental stress, raids, and isolation: How immigration raids traumatize even the youngest children
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“The stress of parents is certainly trickling down to children,” said Suma Setty, a senior policy analyst for immigration and immigrant families at the Center for Law and Social Policy. In her previous research, Setty has heard accounts of children as young as 3 saying they were scared of losing their parents to deportation. “It’s very apparent in their behavior that stress is impacting them, and that has long-term implications,” she added.
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Source URL: https://hechingerreport.org/parents-children-immigration-raids-trauma/
