Fear of deportation exacerbates mental health issues faced by Colorado resort workers

SILVERTHORNE, Colo. — When Adolfo Román García-Ramírez walks home at night after his shift at a market in this central Colorado mountain town, he sometimes thinks back to his childhood in Nicaragua. Adults, he recalls, would frighten children with tales of the “Mona Bruja” (Witch Monkey). If you wander too far into the darkness, they would tell him, a giant, monstrous monkey that lives in the shadows could get you. Now, when García-Ramírez looks…