Immigration raids are linked to low birth weights among Latina mothers

(Oxford University Press USA) Some types of Immigration policy and enforcement can negatively affect the well-being of Latino immigrants, but few studies have examined the repercussions to the health of Latino newborns. New findings, published in the International Journal of Epidemiology, found that there was an increase in the number of low birth weight babies born to US-born and immigrant Latina mothers after a search at a kosher slaughterhouse in Iowa, in which federal authorities arrested nearly 400 immigrant workers without required identity papers.

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