Reports: Immigration Policy’s Effects on Young Children

From CLASP (http://www.clasp.org/):

As the nation endures a torrent of anti-immigrant policies, actions, and rhetoric from the Trump Administration, young children in immigrant families—babies, toddlers, and preschoolers—are suffering immediate and potentially longer-term consequences. Those are the findings from two new reports.

Based on field work with more than 150 early care and education professionals and parents in six states (California, Georgia, Illinois, New Mexico, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania), Our Children’s Fears: Immigration Policy’s Effects on Young Children and Immigration Policy’s Harmful Impacts on Early Care and Education offer the first-ever look at how the Trump Administration is wreaking havoc in the lives of young children under age eight, along with the providers who care for them. These children are crucial to the United States’ future: about one in four young children has at least one immigrant parent, and virtually all these children are U.S. citizens.