Youth all over the world are suffering; latino/a youth in the US are particularly vulnerable to life's most horrible lessons. Our imagined US community has not historically met the needs of the indigenous peoples, those slaves brought from Africa, the Latino/a community nor of any other immigrant group, both voluntary and involuntary, in its long history of weaving, assimilating, and integrating diverse cultures into its social fabric. Youth from all walks of life have suffered the most. How do youth deal with this trauma? How do we all suffer as a community when a US born member of Campecine Youth Academy has her home raided by Immigration Customs & Enforcement and watches as five officers arrest and deport her father? Today, she communicates with us over email as she begins school in El Salvador she claims that she is excited and is making the best of her life. This experience leaves not just this family feeling hopeless but our entire community because we are not able to do anything to preserve the sacredness of families! Rather than being anomalies, this kind of trauma and these types of experiences are the norm in our communities. Latino/a communities are not just being terrorized from the outside by the fear of having their families separated; we are also destroying ourselves by internalizing the hate and disdain that exists against "us". We, who are told we do not belong here and that we are an invasion to this society, have internalized these discourses of white ...
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