Meryl Horn

Hey, Rose.

Yeah, the ICE raids, right?

This is the thing that supposedly started everything, these immigration raids.

The government said it was sending in ICE to deport people who were undocumented.

We heard about this from T as well, the protester that we heard from earlier in the show.

And so like hearing about this, it made me curious to find out more about the ice raids.

Like what effects are they having on people?

How widespread are those effects?

And there's actually way more science on this than I was expecting there was.

Yeah.

So I talked about this with Bill Lopez.

He's a clinical associate professor at the University of Michigan.

And he studied the kind of aftermath of like what happens after one of these raids.

And the way he got into this work was that several years ago, he was already doing a study on the health of a community when an ICE raid happened.

It was just miles away from his house in Michigan.

Twelve people were detained.

And after the raid, he found that something called immigration enforcement stress went up, which is basically the fear of being deported.

Maybe not that surprising.

But then also people said that after the raid, their health got worse overall.

And he also did these in-depth interviews, which really showed the kind of depths of the effects on people.