Impact of the Raids on Children: Affected Students Seek Help From School Counselors

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By Ana B. Ibarra, CalMatters A new school year brings with it a range of feelings: excitement, anticipation, nervousness, and nostalgia. María Caballero Magaña, a K-8 school counselor in Oxnard, knows these feelings well: They are familiar companions as students return to school. This year, however, she and other counselors detected acute emotional reactions: anxiety, sadness, and fear after a summer of intensified immigration raids. Families in…