Dr. William Lopez

So we happened to be doing a survey of the Latino community at the same time.

And the raid happened right in the middle.

They drove in one car together.

They pay for the work on their car.

They leave in two cars, right?

And as the husband is driving away, he's detained by immigration enforcement, by ICE, and he's later taken to detention.

And she is watching him because he pulled out in front of her.

So she is witnessing this, right?

And being undocumented herself, she couldn't do anything about it.

She couldn't approach the car or she would be arrested as well.

She actually described the day by saying, fue un día común y corriente, meaning it was a day just like any other, right, in which her husband was detained.

And you never know when this intense climactic event is going to take place, right?

So it's not only the level of violence, but it's the suddenness and unexpectedness of this violence.

And at the third layer, it's the possibility that that violence can happen any day of your life.

And what she did is look at birth weight of infants before the raid and after the raid.

And what she found is that after the raid, the average birth weight of Latino infants went down, but not of white infants.

So this...

What we see, and those were not just from undocumented women, those were just regional birth rate records, right?

Enforcement literally makes its way into the bodies of the next generation who aren't even born yet and who don't even have a concept of citizenship status, right?

Yeah, so the mechanism is twofold, right?