Deportation fears add to mental health problems confronting Colorado resort town workers • Colorado Newsline

Deportation fears add to mental health problems confronting Colorado resort town workers • Colorado Newsline

(Getty Images)This story comes to Newsline from KFF Health News. SILVERTHORNE, Colo. — When Adolfo Román García-Ramírez walks home in the evening from his shift at a grocery store in this central Colorado mountain town, sometimes he thinks back on his childhood in Nicaragua. Adults, he recollects, would scare the kids with tales of the “Mona Bruja,” or “Monkey Witch.” Step too far into the dark, they told him, and you might just get snatched up …

Trump anti-immigrant policies add to Latino mental health crisis in Colorado ski towns

The potential for stepped up ICE raids is causing mental health issues among Latino residents in Colorado ski towns (ACLU Texas image). Editor’s note 1: This story comes to RealVail.com from KFF Health News. SILVERTHORNE, Colo. — When Adolfo Román García-Ramírez walks home in the evening from his shift at a grocery store in this central Colorado mountain town, sometimes he thinks back on his childhood in Nicaragua. Adults, he recollects, would s…