How stricter immigration policies may cause lasting harm to the family members of those detained and deported
of unauthorized immigrants to be detained or deported. Many of those individuals have a family surrounding them—daughters, sons, nieces, nephews, and grandchildren—and mounting evidence indicates that those young people face difficult, and sometimes deadly, mental health challenges.
“Almost 90 percent of these youth are U.S. citizens. These youth are going to be our next generation of leaders in the labor force and other industries as they grow into adulthood,” says lead author of the study and an associate professor at the George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health.of executive orders and regulatory changes to target undocumented individuals—from expanding the range of noncitizens who were prioritized for deportation, to stripping funding from states with sanctuary cities, to directing the Department of Homeland Security to hire 10,000 additional immigration enforcement officers.
Roche and her colleagues surveyed 547 Latino and Latina adolescents between 11 and 14 years old. They were primarily United States citizens, all middle schoolers in the suburbs of Atlanta, Georgia. One in four reported having a family member who was detained or deported in the past year. Six months later, adolescents with a detained or deported family member were more than twice as likely to have suicidal thoughts. They were about three times as likely to have begun drinking from a young age.
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