Ronnie Cohen
@ronnielcohen.bsky.social
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California journalist focused mostly on health and social justice. Words at KFF Health News, NPR, the New York Times, the Washington Post, Reuters, The Guardian and more. Old yogi and new knitter. She/her.
![The decision to alert immigration authorities to Henry’s status as an undocumented migrant is at odds with decades of child welfare practice in Florida – and it appears to violate a 30-year-old state Department of Children and Families rule that prohibits workers from acting upon a child’s status. Fran Allegra, a children’s attorney who ran Miami-Dade’s private foster care agency from 2004 until 2014, said if DCF’s action in Henry’s case represents a formal change in policy, it “puts Florida children at risk, and introduces a new chilling effect on reports to the [state’s] child abuse hotline. Reports about undocumented families are already low. This shift makes the chance for reporting, and, therefore, rescuing kids, less likely.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2vtbmhmrwzbqcfv4we4uxzzt/bafkreifzejzvkh3dka76wm5kctwo2jvthtmawpnyjkxtuzhn7es3fqlcau)
