US communities can suffer long-term consequences after immigration raids

The Trump administration has used workplace raids as a tool in immigration enforcement.  Elizabeth Oglesby on The Conversation looks at the long term impacts of raids on local communities.  “While the immediate shock and trauma of these raids is visible, there are also longer-term impacts on communities. Research I conducted in Massachusetts, Iowa and South Carolina from 2007 to 2013 shows that large-scale raids are experienced locally as disasters, even by those not directly affected. The raids can also be galvanizing, as when humanitarian responses turn into new political alliances that reshape the meaning of community and create ways to stand up for immigrant rights.”

KJ