NPR: The ICE surge is fueling fear and anxiety among Twin Cities children
I like to listen to NPR when I wake up, and am still half-asleep. The mellow reporter lulls be back to sleep, or there is a story so delightfully melodramatic, that I am awake and ready to join the world.
“Every single patient I saw yesterday, we had some discussion over the increased stress, trauma, worry, anxiety, depression that is stemming from the presence of ICE in our communities,” says Dr. Razaan Byrne, a Minneapolis-based pediatrician at Children’s Minnesota, a pediatric health system.
Governor Walz and Mayor Frey are encouraging the locals to resist and impede federal law enforcement, and the locals are dragging their children along as props to these little rebellions, and I’m supposed to be moved. I can only laugh and wonder.
