CHICAGO - Immigration enforcement across Chicago hasn’t just changed neighborhoods. A new medical study says it’s changed childhoods.

We explain what that means for kids’ mental health—and why psychologists say it deserves attention now.

What we know:

Fear has a long memory in Chicago. It lives in kids who’ve learned to run at the sound of sirens and wait for calm that never really comes.

Now, a new kind of fear is taking hold.

Federal immigration raids are reaching into neighborhoods and near schools.

Dr. Cynthia Langtiw has spent 25 years listening to that kind of fear. She works with children—and the adults who care for them.

"I work with organizations who work with undocumented youth, unaccompanied minors who are in shelters. I work with families. I work with refugees and asyl

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