This post is by Jed Lewison from Daily Kos
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Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant crackdown is terrorizing a generation of Latino children, with research from CAP showing that mass deportation policies “create toxic stress for young children by breaking families apart, instilling fear in the immigrant community, and preventing families from accessing programs that meet children’s most basic needs.”
With an estimated six million U.S. citizen kids having at least one undocumented family member in their household, “policies that cause children emotional distress and economic insecurity in early childhood interfere with their healthy development and derail their future success”:
Being separated from a parent or caregiver—or even the idea of a separation—exposes young children to stress and trauma. In extreme cases, children may be present during immigration raids, where armed U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents may burst into a home and forcibly remove parents. Children who have been separated from their parents frequently show signs of trauma, including
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