Immigrant families face new threat to children’s health: Uncertainty [revealnews.org]

Alicia Doktor 6/5/184:00 AM

Before dawn, the quiet coastal community of Live Oak, California, exploded with noise. Sandy Beck, a teacher who has lived in the neighborhood for nearly 20 years, awoke to the thrum of helicopter blades. Outside, searchlights from the air swept the streets. Then the percussive blasts of flash-bang grenades echoed off the small ranch houses and low-slung apartments.

“It honestly felt like a war zone,” Beck said.

While she and her 16-year-old daughter huddled upstairs, other neighbors, silent in their darkened houses, listened to the thuds and cracks of federal agents breaking open front doors.

[For more on this story by Grace Rubenstein, go to https://www.revealnews.org/art...-health-uncertainty/]

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