By
Catherine Robertson Souter
March 2nd, 2025
Carola Suarez-Orozco, Ph.D., professor in residence at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and the director of the Immigration Initiative
America is a "nation of immigrants,' as President Kennedy once said, where we like to think of ourselves as a land of refuge and promise. What we have proudly labelled a "melting pot" has at times, however, appeared ready to boil over, never more so than now.
With the new administration's raids on immigrant populations and the threat of deportation for up to 20 million people, that promise of the "American Dream" has, instead, become a nightmare of anxiety for some immigrant families.
Today, one-fourth of children and one-third of young adults are first or second generation. There are an estimated 4.5 million children living with one or more family members at risk of being deported and 725,000 children with either no legal authorization or ...
