Trump's Crackdown on Immigration Is Taking a Toll on Child Care Workers

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

71% : Hernández-Figueroa said ICE's heightened presence during the federal intervention in the city has taken a toll on employees' mental health.
53% : Amy Lomanto, who heads the school, said teachers noticed more outbursts among students, and more students retreating to what the school calls "the regulation station," an area in the main office with fidget toys kids can use to calm themselves.
52% : Instead, ICE officials are urged to exercise "common sense.
51% : WASHINGTON (AP) -- Not long after President Donald Trump took office in January, staff at CentroNía bilingual preschool began rehearsing what to do if Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials came to the door.
50% : But ICE's presence and the fear it generates have changed how the school operates.
50% : She said the teacher, who had a work permit and was later released, was a passenger in a car that was being pursued by ICE officials.
48% : As ICE became a regular presence in their historically Latino neighborhood this summer, teachers stopped taking children to nearby parks, libraries and playgrounds that had once been considered an extension of the classroom.
47% : " Tricia McLaughlin, spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security, defended ICE officials' decision to enter the Chicago preschool.
47% : At a Guidepost Montessori School in Portland, Oregon, teachers observed preschoolers change in the weeks after an ICE arrest near the school in July.
46% : All of this transpired before ICE officials arrested a teacher inside a Spanish immersion preschool in Chicago in October.
46% : Fear is affecting even those in the US legally At CentroNía, one staff member was detained by ICE while walking down the street and held for several hours, all the while unable to contact colleagues to let them know where she was.
45% : Another staff member, teacher Edelmira Kitchen, said she was pulled over by ICE on her way to work in September.
44% : Immigrant child care workers and preschool teachers, the majority of whom are working and living in the U.S. legally, say they are wracked by anxiety over possible encounters with ICE officials.
41% : ICE had begun stopping staff members, all of whom have legal status, and school officials worried about drawing more unwelcome attention.
40% : The child care industry depends on immigrants Schools and child care centers were once off limits to ICE officials, in part to keep children out of harm's way.

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