By Nelson A. King\Caribbean Life
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A Jamaican-born psychotherapist in New York has warned that President Donald J. Trump’s mass deportation agenda is causing “a lot of anxiety” in the Caribbean and other immigrant communities.
“The impact of the new immigration law by the 47th President, Donald J. Trump, has caused a lot of anxiety in the immigrant and migrant community,” Vassell G. O’Gilvie, who operates a psychotherapist clinic in Poughkeepsie, a New York City suburb, told Caribbean Life.
“The community is living in fear, which has caused tremendous duress for the family,” he added. “Clients who usually come to the office, even with proper documents, resort to phone calls and telehealth sessions instead of face-to-face.
“Most of these clients have legal rights and documents but may have family members who are not legal, so they become phobic in exercising the freedom of movement,” continued O’Gilvie, stating that, as a clinician, he sees “the fear and desperation in many of his clients who may not know what legal option they have at their disposal.” READ MORE…
