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Harm is evident in the Greater Boston area where immigrant families’ daily lives are being upended by harsh immigration policies and children are losing out on vital health, nutrition, and educational services as a result.
The reemergence of worksite raids is an example of the Trump Administration’s enforcement-heavy approach that harms not only workers, but also families and communities.
Children of immigrants now comprise one in four of all children in the United States. Hardworking immigrants continue to be humiliated and punished due to an unjust system that relies on and often exploits their labor. Their children, the majority of whom are U.S. citizens, are forced to suffer the long-term harmful consequences of harsh immigration policy decisions that are often politically motivated.
"The child-care industry will need $9.6 billion per month in federal assistance to prevent providers from being forced to permanently shut down, according to an analysis by the Center for Law and Social Policy and the National Women’s Law Center."
Op-ed by Kate Gallagher Robbins and Rebecca Ullrich about the toll the pandemic is taking on the child care sector
Rebecca Ullrich was quoted throughout this article: “If child care does not survive the crisis, there will be no going back to work… because people need child care to go to work.”
Rebecca Ullrich was quoted several times throughout this article about adequate child care funding needed.
A CLASP fact sheet was referenced in this article: “'The loans aren’t designed to meet the needs and realities of child-care providers and simply cannot be the solution for the field,' says the Center for Law and Social Policy."