Truthout
After the Raid
Exposing the communal trauma of immigration enforcement.
![After the Raid: The Communal Trauma of Immigration Enforcement. Art by Jess X Snow](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2018/05/until-we-are-all-free-by-jess-x-snow.jpg)
Series Introduction
The US government terrorizes immigrant families and families of color with thousands of raids each year. These raids are, by design, militarized, terrifying, violent and dehumanizing. In their wake, individuals may experience symptoms associated with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and community trust in government services of all sorts is severed. In this series, After the Raid: The Communal Trauma of Immigration Enforcement, activists, researchers, lawyers, community members and physicians expose the collective trauma that results from raids and discuss ways to protect one another and fight for positive change.
![Virgen de Guadalupe being led away by ICE](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2018/05/image4-400x300.png)
Introduction to Truthout’s ”After the Raid” Series
Introducing a series to ignite a deeper understanding of immigration enforcement.
![People in a small crowd hold signs denouncing ICE](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2019/04/2019_0430-ice-protest-400x300.jpg)
ICE Is Monitoring and Targeting Immigration Activists
Homeland Security officials monitored hundreds of protests against family separations last year.
![People from a caravan of Central American migrants on their way to the United States wait to depart on a truck whose driver offered a ride on January 22, 2019, in Santo Domingo Zanatepec, Mexico.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2019/01/GettyImages-1086407458-400x300.jpg)
Deportation Is an Emergency. Here’s One Coalition’s Way of Fighting It.
This coalition of “urgent responders” makes sure communities dealing with deportation know they are not alone.
![An Enforcement and Removal Operations unit with Immigration and Customs Enforcement conducts a raid in Riverside, California, August 12, 2015.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2019/01/2019_0108-ice-400x300.jpg)
ICE Raids Make Families Afraid to Leave Their Homes
Raids destabilize families and communities and make people feel unsafe even in their own homes.
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Public Health Workers Must Join the Struggle for Immigrant Justice
Public health professionals can take concrete actions to meet the needs of immigrants and their families.
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State Violence Is at the Root of Health Inequities
Racist policing has serious impacts on public health in communities of color at taxpayers' expense.
![Afghan refugee Rahman Sahah, 32, and Mirwais Ahmadzai, 27, start their hunger strike outside Her Majesty's Government home office on August 1, 2018, in Glasgow, Scotland.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2018/08/GettyImages-1008751580-400x300.jpg)
Audience and Authority in the UK Asylum-Seeking Process
The asylum bureaucracy demands a narrative of trauma and mental illness, regardless of lived experience.
![Immigration activists chain themselves up as they stage a civil disobedience to shut down Independence Avenue, March 5, 2018, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2018/08/GettyImages-927688682m-400x300.jpg)
Psychological Resources in Latinx Struggle Against Systemic Oppression
In these turbulent times, Latinx people are drawing strength from their community's history of struggle.
![Activists, including childcare providers, parents and their children, protest against the Trump administration's recent family detention and separation policies for migrants along the southern border, near the New York offices of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), July 18, 2018, in New York City.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2018/07/GettyImages-1001312882b-400x300.jpg)
Raising Bond for Detained Migrants: Key Part of Anti-Deportation Fight
The Eastern Iowa Community Bond Project works to keep together immigrant communities terrorized by Trump.
![Northern Virginia Gang Task Force officers partner with ICE officer to arrest a Latino man in a Manassas, Virginia, neighborhood on August 10, 2017.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2018/07/GettyImages-841759602-400x300.jpg)
With Escalation in ICE Raids, Immigrant Legal Resource Centers Double Down
Legal resource centers are finding strategic ways to collaborate, react and be proactive in advising immigrants.
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We Will Not Be Silenced by ICE: Writing After Deportation
After ICE deported my husband, I became a historian to uncover the origins of a largely hidden immigration system.