Immigrant Latino Children and the Limits of Questionnaires in Capturing Adverse Childhood Events

* Abbreviations: ACE — : adverse childhood event ICE — : US Immigration and Customs Enforcement An undocumented immigrant father drops off his 12-year-old daughter at school in Los Angeles. Moments later, 2 black, unmarked vehicles surround his car a few blocks from the school. US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents arrest him while his 13-year-old daughter watches from his car; she can be heard sobbing while she films a cell phone video of the arrest that later goes viral.1 An undocumented Guatemalan mother of 4 children, including 1 with cerebral palsy, faces deportation after 24 years as a Connecticut housecleaner and seeks sanctuary in a church with her 9-year-old daughter by her side.2 One day after his mother’s ICE arrest, an undocumented Ecuadorian high school senior in New York is taken into custody by ICE hours before his senior prom.3 While waiting at his school bus stop, an undocumented Salvadorian high school senior in North Carolina is arrested and handcuffed by armed ICE agents as schoolmates watch from the bus; he is detained for 5 months and misses graduation.4,5 Another undocumented North Carolina high school senior (who crossed the border as an unaccompanied … Address correspondence to Glenn Flores, MD, FAAP, Connecticut Children’s Medical Center, 282 Washington St, Hartford, CT, 06106. E-mail: gflores{at}connecticutchildrens.org