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Press Call: Experts to Discuss How Trump Administration's Attacks on Immigrant Communities Are Harming Nation's Children and Undermining Our Child Care System

February 3, 2026
Early Care & Education, Immigration

Magen Eissenstat, 202/371-1996

**Media Advisory for Thursday, February 5, 12pm ET**

Conducting raids at or near schools and child care centers. Harassing immigrant communities, including immigrant care workers. Holding children in dangerous, unsanitary conditions and detaining their caregivers. Withholding federal child care funds without cause. Forcing terrified children and families into hiding. On Thursday, February 5 at noon ET, parents, providers, and experts will join a virtual press call organized by MomsRising and America’s Voice to discuss how the Trump administration’s anti-immigrant agenda is causing massive harm to the health, wellbeing and education of children across the country. 

Speakers will discuss how these reckless human rights abuses are traumatizing children, undermining parents’ access to care, and undermining our ability to raise healthy, secure children and the need to protect sensitive locations (child care programs, schools, health centers, and places of worship) from immigration enforcement. 

  • WHAT: Press call highlighting how Trump’s anti-immigrant agenda is harming nation’s children, organized by MomsRising and America’s Voice 

  • WHEN: Thursday, February 5, 12pm ET

  • WHO: 

    • Nina Perez, MomsRising National Campaign Director for Early Learning and Florida State Director 

    • Linda Stone, MomsRising Senior Director, Immigration

    • Sarah Quinn, MomsRising member in Minneapolis whose child's preschool has been the subject of harassment

    • Wendy Cervantes, Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP) Director of Immigration and Immigrant Families 

    • Dr. Gabriela Maradiaga Panayotti, MD, FAAP. Pediatrician, Durham, NC.

  • RSVP: RSVP to magen@momsrising.org or press@americasvoice.org for details on how to join the virtual event

There will be Spanish speakers on the zoom.A recording will be available to journalists following the event. 

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MomsRising.org is an on-the-ground and online grassroots organization of more than a million people who are working to increase family economic security, stop discrimination against women and moms, and build a nation where businesses and families can thrive. Established in 2006, MomsRising and its members are organizing and speaking out to improve public policy and to change the national dialogue on issues that are critically important to America’s families, including criminal justice reform, immigration policy reform, and gun safety. MomsRising is working for paid family and medical leave, affordable, high quality childcare and early learning, and for an end to the wage and hiring discrimination which penalizes women — particularly moms and women of color — and so many others. MomsRising advocates for access to healthy food for all kids, health care for all, earned sick days, and breastfeeding rights so that all children can have a healthy start. MomsRising maintains a Spanish language website: www.MamásConPoder.org. Sign up online at www.MomsRising.org — and follow us on our blog, and on Twitter and Facebook.