Perseverance Through Transitions
January 20, 2024 Today President Trump, at the 60th Inauguration of the U.S. President, announced one of his first Executive Orders on immigration reform The President will declare a national emergency at the U.S.-Mexico Border and reinstate the “remain in Mexico” and the “catch and release” orders, and utilize the emergency act to direct federal funds to build a bureaucracy of new staff, deploy troops and immigration agents starting in Chicago as early as this week. Although these policies have decreased past flow of immigrants, they have also decreased detaining those with no safety risks or those with families in the U.S. and, thus, they have decreased costs of manning detention sites.
On the other hand, this effort will undoubtedly increase much fear, anxiety and stress among our Latino families that will lead to higher toxic health and wellbeing - more diabetes, heart attacks, strokes, and depression….leading to absenteeism and decreasing productivity, less services and products, and eventually increasing prices.