Meryl Horn

So he told me the story of this woman who had gone with her husband that day to pick up their car from the mechanic.

And then Bill interviewed her later about how this experience stuck with her.

And other research has found that ice raids aren't just impacting undocumented people.

One study said that U.S.

citizens were more likely to report feeling anxious or depressed if they knew someone who was detained or deported.

And it's not just mental health that's affected.

Studies are finding that it can affect physical health, too.

And then Bill told me about this study.

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.