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Our daughter, who we adopted, is of Mexican ancestry. She's in 4th grade, and we're in an area with lots of ICE activity.
We've tried to shelter her from the worst of the news, but she's fully aware of what ICE is, what ICE is doing, and the fact that people who look kind of like her are frequent targets. ICE agents have been seen in parks near her school.
This morning, my phone went off. Amber Alert - missing child. My daughter was next to me when it arrived.
She looked at me with real panic. "Was it ICE?!" she asked. She then ran off crying, worried that ICE might come for her. She wasn't play-panicking, either - she was genuinely terrified.
My daughter shouldn't have to afraid to be herself in the neighborhood. She's afraid unknown adults will come and grab her. No child should experience that.
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