Ongoing threats are exacerbating the daily fear and anxiety millions of undocumented immigrants experience daily across the United States.
Liliana Campos was on a train from Los Angeles to San Francisco when she got a text from her brother alerting her of Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids in San Bruno, California.Campos, 32, was overcome by a familiar fear. She had been a permanent resident for about a year. Logically, she knew that if ICE officers showed up in her neighborhood, they could not arrest her.
“It's very alarming to be in a position to be in. Our fear response is activated every day for years,” Campos said of the fear of deportation. “It has consequences.” Story continuesFear of deportationGustavo Guerrero, 27, said there’s not a day that goes by when he’s not thinking of his immigration status. “It’s always in the back of your mind,” he said, “You're driving, you're working, you're sleeping in your home, you're picking up your kids from school, you're constantly thinking about it.”
“I’d gone from being this really gregarious, social, extroverted person to not being able to go to the grocery store when there were other people around because I felt like I was having a heart attack,” said Uribe, now 35. Three years after the start of her immigration case, Uribe agreed to voluntarily deport from the U.S. Uribe said she left on September 5, 2009, taking a bus to Mexico, a place that felt foreign to her because she had left there for the last time when she was 11 years old.
Trump’s stance on immigration became apparent early on in his campaign when he promised to build a wall on Mexico’s dime, called immigrants animals, rapists and “bad hombres” and vowed to end DACA, a deportation deferral permit for those who were brought to the U.S. as children during a certain time period. Many immigrants, researchers and clinicians say the danger for the immigrant community is not just in Trump’s own language and policies, but in the behavior he empowers with it.
She studies the mental health outcomes of the lasting fear of deportation. It’s hard for her sometimes, she said. Everyday can feel like preparing for battle because her work requires her to stay informed on immigration news, which often features anti-immigration policy and rhetoric, she said. Jennifer Garcia Mendoza works with United We Dream, a national organization to support undocumented youth, educating undocumented immigrants all over the country about indigenous healing practices and self care methods they can employ if they can't access more formal mental health services.
Through the UndocuHealth program, Garcia Mendoza teaches other undocumented immigrants about holistic health practices like yoga and meditative breathing. Garcia Mendoza said she hopes to help them transform their pain and fear into something that drives them forward.
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