Stress of being undocumented
Ortiz has seen suffering among those at the mercy of the immigration system. People were taken from their job sites. Some lost loved ones in other countries.
“They can’t go back home to bury their own,” he said.
Immigrants may have already experienced trauma before arriving in the U.S. because of the situations they navigated to get into the country or the circumstances that led them to leave their home countries in the first place , said India Ornelas, an associate professor in the University of Washington’s School of Public Health.
All of that trauma puts them at an increased risk for poor mental health, said
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