The recent immigration operations have caused some people to stay home out of fear, leading some organizations and volunteers to provide families with basic needs.<\/p>\n
Many immigrants have characterized the current environment as one where they feel imprisoned within their own homes.<\/p>\n
One woman, who requested to remain anonymous out of fear, told Telemundo 52 she hasn’t left her home for several weeks for fear of being detained in an immigration operation.<\/p>\n
“I always ask my son to run the errands. I have a note on the door: ‘Keep the door closed,’ because I feel very stressed,” the woman said.<\/p>\n
This immigrant said she arrived from Venezuela with a humanitarian parole granted by former President Joe Biden, which was canceled by President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n
She said, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) sent her a letter informing her that she must leave the country, offering her $1,000 and a plane ticket. However, she says she has a lot to lose, as she would be forced to leave her 15-year-old son, a United States citizen, in addition to losing her treatment for Guillain-Barr\u00e9 disease.<\/p>\n
“If I return to Venezuela, I’ll end up bedridden again. Here are my medications; I can’t afford this,” the woman said.<\/p>\n
This situation is something many people in Los Angeles are experiencing every day. Ongoing\u00a0immigrant operations are causing many to stay home. Now, organizations like St. John\u2019s Community Clinics are offering a helping hand to people facing this fear.<\/p>\n
“St. John’s is offering to bring them some groceries because we’ve heard they’re afraid to even go to the store,” said Peggy Hernandez of St. John’s Community Clinics.<\/p>\n
Community clinics also report that they are seeing fewer patients.<\/p>\n
“They’re calling and canceling all their appointments. Quite a few people are canceling, and we know that health is important here,” said Lindsey Sanchez of St. John’s Community Clinics.<\/p>\n
Due to these fears, medical teams are making home visits or picking up children to bring them to the clinic.<\/p>\n
“They brought me because I was afraid,” said one patient at the clinic.<\/p>\n
Many patients have said, clinics like St. John’s make them feel safe. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The recent immigration operations have caused some people to stay home out of fear, leading some organizations and…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":18407,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,409,2961,224,5337],"class_list":{"0":"post-18406","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-immigration","11":"tag-la","12":"tag-los-angeles","13":"tag-losangeles"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114754022930494797","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}