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Chabeli Carrazana @chabeli.bsky.social · 1d

ICE has recently targeted patients in hospital maternity wards and on their way home from prenatal visits. As a result,
many patients are skipping virtually all of their pregnancy-related health care.
~250k babies are born every year to immigrations w/o permanent status.
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ICE fears put pregnant immigrants and their babies at risk

Fear of deportation is deterring people without permanent legal status from critical care. Doctors are worried for their health — and the health of their pregnancies.

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Chabeli Carrazana @chabeli.bsky.social · 9d

Ah sorry broken link! www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oQs...

Child Care Providers on the Frontlines of Change | MAKE A CIRCLE | Full Documentary

YouTube video by PBS

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Chabeli Carrazana @chabeli.bsky.social · 9d

If you haven't had a chance to catch it, Make a Circle is a beautiful, heartbreaking look into the child care workers doing absolutely essential work every day in a society that has yet to value them. It's really worth a watch, and now streaming on PBS!
Watch here: www.pbs.org/show/make-a-...

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Chabeli Carrazana @chabeli.bsky.social · 9d

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Chabeli Carrazana @chabeli.bsky.social · 12d

In every category surveyed — groceries, housing, child care, medical bills and retirement — women are more likely to say they are worried about covering those expenses.

Latinas consistently reported higher rates of worry than any other group across nearly all categories
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When it comes to rising costs, women are more worried than men — about everything

A new 19th News/SurveyMonkey poll found that women — especially women of color — were more worried about covering the cost of groceries, housing, medical bills, child care and rent.

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Chabeli Carrazana @chabeli.bsky.social · 14d

Thank you Sheila! Can you shoot me a message or an email?

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Chabeli Carrazana @chabeli.bsky.social · 14d

For a story! Looking to speak to women about the cost of living — groceries, child care, housing, medical bills, retirement.

If you want to chat, I'm here or at ccarrazana(at)19thnews.org!

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Chabeli Carrazana @chabeli.bsky.social · 20d

A gutting and beautiful piece by @oriion.bsky.social about what it's like to be the parent of a trans child in this moment. Worth a read:

Orion Rummler @oriion.bsky.social · 20d

I spoke with five families in the D.C. region about what it's like raising trans kids in Trump's backyard.

They shared fears about being personally targeted by the federal government and their joys in raising kids that are learning to express themselves authentically in a difficult world.

What it’s like raising trans kids in Trump’s backyard

Families in and around Washington, D.C., are navigating the White House’s crackdown on gender-affirming care and a growing assertion of federal power.

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Chabeli Carrazana @chabeli.bsky.social · 20d

Diaper need is a problem so big and with so few solutions that I'm always interested when I I come across a new one.

This particular one, Diaper Dollars, gives parents an e-card that deducts the price of diapers at checkout. Currently in Illinois and Ohio:
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What if diapers were free for the parents who need them most?

Diaper Dollars, a nonprofit that gives families in need money to cover diaper expenses, could be a model for states looking to offer more solutions to the diaper need crisis.

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Chabeli Carrazana @chabeli.bsky.social · 20d

The only federal program that funds on-campus child care, CCAMPIS, has seen unprecedented cuts this year from the Trump administration.

Today, @whipkclark.bsky.social & @duckworth.senate.gov are reintroducing legislation to fully fund the program.
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There's a new push to save child care on college campuses

Two Democratic lawmakers are reintroducing legislation to fully fund CCAMPIS, the only federal program that funds on-campus child care.

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Adam Isacson @adamisacson.com · 27d

From this story: what they saw at ICE's Alexandria Staging Facility in Louisiana. Six months apart.

A little girl, maybe 10, had been brought alone in a van. Later, a woman got out of a bus and immediately started screaming “Julia,” looking for her daughter inside the vans until she spotted the girl.

“They hugged. It was a moment of sadness and we all watched as she hugged her daughter,” Orozco Forero recalled.

Then the mother’s screams cut through the stifling air. “Six months!” the mother spat at the officials. Six months they’d kept them apart.

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Chabeli Carrazana @chabeli.bsky.social · 27d

In Washington, D.C., where close to 40% of child care workers are immigrants, fear has taken hold amid a crime crackdown that has raised ICE presence.

“What kind of life is this? We are not delinquents, we are not bad people, we are here to work to support our family.”
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‘They are hunting us:’ Child care workers in D.C. go underground amid ICE crackdown

In Washington, D.C., where close to 40 percent of child care workers are immigrants, fear has taken hold amid a crime crackdown that has raised ICE presence. Many are missing work, deepening a staffin...

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Emily Ramshaw @eramshaw.bsky.social · 27d

This is what she lives with every day now: “The fear of leaving your family and letting them know, ‘If I don’t return, it’s not because I am abandoning you.’”

Powerful story by @chabeli.bsky.social for @19thnews.org.

‘They are hunting us:’ Child care workers in D.C. go underground amid ICE crackdown

In Washington, D.C., where close to 40 percent of child care workers are immigrants, fear has taken hold amid a crime crackdown that has raised ICE presence. Many are missing work, deepening a staffin...

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Chabeli Carrazana @chabeli.bsky.social · 28d

You may have seen our story about the impact the detention of a child care worker had on her Seattle community. She recently told me what happened to her & her family in detention.
“In those detention centers, there are many families who are innocent. We were innocent.”
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A family’s detention and deportation through a mother’s eyes

Nicolle Orozco Forero brings us inside the country's largest family detention center, where she was kept with her husband and two sons.

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Orion Rummler @oriion.bsky.social · 28d

They were soon handcuffed, stripped of their belongings and shuffled to the back of the building. Orozco Forero said she showed an ICE officer a letter from Juan David’s doctors approving a biopsy; the officer tore it apart, she said. “This no longer works,” the officer told her.

A family’s detention and deportation through a mother’s eyes

Nicolle Orozco Forero brings us inside the country's largest family detention center, where she was kept with her husband and two sons.

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Chabeli Carrazana @chabeli.bsky.social · 29d

In the absence of a federal universal child care system, some states have worked to build their own systems, and New Mexico has been a leader in that effort over the past several years.
It will now be the first to make child care free for all.
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New Mexico will be the first state to make child care free

The program, which is expected to save families $12,000 per child annually, is available to all residents regardless of income.

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Chabeli Carrazana @chabeli.bsky.social · Sep 8

Women who turned to Etsy to build their small businesses are facing the prospect of closing or downsizing bc of tariffs.

"I just want to make a decent living doing something I feel deeply passionate about —that’s my American dream. It just feels like it’s slipping away”
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Why your favorite Etsy treasures could soon cost more — or go away entirely

Women who turned to Etsy to build their small businesses are facing the prospect of closing or downsizing because of tariffs.

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Chabeli Carrazana @chabeli.bsky.social · Sep 5

It's pretty undeniable. Black women (and men) are being hit particularly hard by job loss. Just look at that climb.

Black women's unemployment rate in August (6.7%) is the highest in four years.

We noticed this trend in July: 19thnews.org/2025/07/blac...

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Emily Ramshaw @eramshaw.bsky.social · Sep 5

Last night I sweated through my pajamas so bad I could almost wring them out.

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Faith Smith @faithsm.bsky.social · Aug 29

Join @19thnews.org 09/18 in Austin for our inaugural Ronya Kozmetsky Salon for women and LGBTQ+ people in business. @chabeli.bsky.social will interview entrepreneurs Janice Omadeke and Alejandra Aguirre then stick around for conversation and community.
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Chabeli Carrazana @chabeli.bsky.social · Aug 29

The juggle of finding summer child care is even more challenging & costly for Black families.
How parents did it this summer & why it matters: “Being able to be in spaces where you are understood, feel seen...is so important.”
Excellent story via @alexiswray.bsky.social
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This summer, parents stitched together child care to give their kids a ‘space for Black joy’

Amid rising camp costs and limited options, parents built their own patchwork of child care plans with relatives, community programs and Black-led camps.

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Chabeli Carrazana @chabeli.bsky.social · Aug 28

Across the country, the overarching feeling was this: “We can have all that [political] rhetoric, but...I do not believe that coming to Head Start and putting these questions to families who are just trying to go to work is the way to do it.”

More here: 19thnews.org/2025/08/head...

When did caring for America’s most vulnerable kids become political?

Though it survived elimination, Head Start is under threat. Now that they have been directed to ban undocumented children, providers wonder if politics has changed the program forever.

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Chabeli Carrazana @chabeli.bsky.social · Aug 28

For some in red states the immigration rule feels like a step too far.

“We are about doing what’s right for children,” said Julie Stone of the Ohio Head Start Association. “We’ve never been required to establish their status, but we know their parents are working."

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Chabeli Carrazana @chabeli.bsky.social · Aug 28

Many Head Start providers would love to return to a time when Head Start wasn’t political. Others feel like the mission of Head Start — to protect those most in need — has moved them to speak up at a time when those communities are being targeted.

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Chabeli Carrazana @chabeli.bsky.social · Aug 28

First, funding was frozen to Head Start.

Then, the Trump administration closed 5 of the 10 regional offices that support providers.

Next, a leaked budget called for eliminating Head Start.

It survived.

In the summer, a new change: Undocumented children will be banned from Head Start.

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