Texas’ southern border is ground zero in the nation’s immigration debate. We’ve covered concerns that the Trump administration’s family separation policy could have lasting traumatic effects on the migrant children separated from their parents at the border. A recent study looked at the health impact on kids who are part of families of mixed legal status, such as the roughly 1,800 kids in the Rio Grande Valley who had a parent deported by Immigration and Customs Enforcement last year.
Tania Chavez is with one of the groups releasing the study, La Union del Pueblo Entero or LUPE, a migrant relief and immigrant rights organization in the Rio Grande Valley.
The study surveyed more than 200 parents of children who in which at least one person in their family is undocumented. The survey, combined with in-depth interviews of medical, education and business professionals in the Valley, found that children who were separated from parents, or whose parents were or deported show symptoms of separation anxiety that are higher than the national average.
[For more on this story by Kristen Cabrera, go to https://www.texasstandard.org/...h-levels-of-anxiety/]
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