“Kids start lagging behind academically, having social stress, anxiety, depression….With the new administration and all the threats for deportation that are so vivid and so real, and all the rhetoric that’s going around, the anxiety escalates to a point that can be very paralyzing for some of these kids, who don’t want to go to school, or who go to school and sit in there and still worry about their families.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/aug/23/us-immigration-children-schools-trump?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GU+Today+USA+-+Collections+2017&utm_term=240675&subid=9545534&CMP=GT_US_collection

Leon Smith, Esq.
Director, Racial Justice Project

Center for Children’s Advocacy

211 State Street, 4^th Floor

Bridgeport, CT 06604 

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Hartford – Bridgeport – New Haven