Students weigh safety, politics in college plans as Trump targets immigration
Students weigh safety, politics in college plans as Trump targets immigration
- June 6, 2025
- Work by Laura Enriquez, Chicano/Latino studies, and colleagues in The 74, June 6, 2025
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Despite the well-studied need for mental health services, a 2019 study from the University of California, Irvine showed that undocumented students in higher education use such services less frequently than their documented peers. “Students expressed low perceived need because they normalized mental strain as a natural product of their unstable immigration status,” wrote the study’s authors. “Many viewed treatment as futile because it could not address underlying immigration-related issues.”
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