Dolores Acevedo-Garcia quoted in The New York Times on aid for children in immigrant families
Published: 05.27.2025
Updated: 05.29.2025

From The New York Times
An article in The New York Times discusses how proposals to limit aid for immigrants would exclude citizen children in immigrant families from social safety net programs. "'Going forward, they are the adults of this country,' said Dolores Acevedo-Garcia, a professor of social work at Boston University who studies immigrants. 'Do we want to disinvest in them now so that their education and health and everything deteriorates, and then we have to face that in a few years from now?'”