Meryl Horn

It was about a raid that happened in Iowa in 2008 at a meat processing plant.

And it was huge.

ICE deployed 900 agents and almost 300 people were deported.

And what this researcher did, she looked at babies born after this raid in Iowa.

Oh, my gosh.

Yeah.

Infants born to Latino women had a 24% higher chance of being born with a low birth weight after the raid compared to beforehand.

I asked Bill about this.

And do we know what the mechanism there would be?

Is this from stress?

Another thing going on could be that people are less likely to get medical care like prenatal care if they're worried about being deported.

So like there was one study that surveyed health care providers and almost half of them said that they had seen negative effects of ICE enforcement on their immigrant patients.

One said, quote, fear of getting deported keeps all of these folks away.

Also, even folks with green cards are afraid of losing their insurance now and have stopped getting necessary treatments, unquote.

So there's good reason to be afraid, actually.

And, you know, a lot of the work that we've been talking about here is just looking at like one individual ICE raid.

But what's happening in Minnesota is on a whole other level, of course.

I talked about that with Bill, who said that even though he's been in this field for 15 years, what's happening now caught him off guard.

Technically, that boy, Liam Conejo Ramos, the five-year-old, was detained, not arrested.

But yeah, you probably saw, you know, his photo was making the rounds last week.