US EditionTrump's crackdown on immigration is taking a toll on child care workers
The Trump administration’s immigration enforcement ended protections for many immigrant workers, causing staff shortages and operational disruptions in immigrant-heavy child care centers nationwide.
- This summer, the Trump administration's stepped-up immigration enforcement disrupted the child care workforce, causing preschools to halt outings and alter classroom routines.
- The administration's push for mass deportation stripped legal status from hundreds of thousands in recent months and ended TPS, with 300,000 immigrants from Venezuela losing protected status last month.
- Not long after President Donald Trump took office, CentroNía bilingual preschool staff rehearsed ICE visit responses and a teacher was arrested inside a Spanish immersion preschool in Chicago in October.
- Immigrant child care workers and families felt frightened and vulnerable, with staff and children experiencing panic attacks; earlier this year, Department of Behavioral Health mental health consultants worked with teachers due to anxiety.
- The sector relies heavily on immigrant workers, with about one-fifth of America's child care workers foreign-born and some centers like Tierra Encantada losing a dozen teachers after TPS ended.
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Immigration enforcement is driving away early childhood educators
Close to 40,000 foreign-born child care workers have been driven out of the profession in the wake of the Trump administration’s aggressive deportation and detainment efforts, according to a new study by the Better Life Lab at the think tank New America. That represents about 12 percent of the foreign-born child care workforce.Child care workers with at least a two-year college degree are most likely to be leaving the workforce, as well as worke…
Donald Trump's intensified immigration policy has a massive impact on childcare. Immigrants feel threatened, schools change their processes – and the psychological consequences also affect the smallest.
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Trump's crackdown on immigration is taking a toll on child care workers
President Donald Trump’s push for the largest mass deportation in history has had an outsized impact on the child care field, which is heavily reliant on immigrants and already strained by a worker shortage.
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