Table 2. Youth photos depicting how immigration policy enforcement affect Latinx youth mental health.

Photos taken by youth during photovoice. Photos are accompanied by a title given by the photographer as well as an excerpt of their description about the photo from photovoice session. These photos depicted represent a selection of 36 photos taken across each of the group’s four photovoice sessions and were selected by youth partners.

Mechanism	Youth photo	Quote about photo from photovoice session
Policing and deportation	Title: At the Wheel
		A lot of parents have a fear of driving because they may not have a license or – and they have the fear of being pulled over and getting questioned, and I know that there was, um – uh, I don’t know if it was a law or something, but it was 287(g), which, um, if a police officer stopped you they were able to, like, take you to jail and, like, basically ICE inside of jails. So that was, like, just a-a lot of worries that parents would have. So my sister would be driving instead of the parent.
Discrimination and Stereotypes	Title: Our Culture
		I just wanted to show, like, how our culture is different from the one here and that’s why we sometimes get discriminated.
Segregated Communities	Title: Institutionalized
		I made sure it was, like, as little color, ‘cause I’m, like, wearing this school uniform. So, like, it’s meant to show how, like, you’re forced to assimilate in, like, the school system […] that area’s, like, very segregated as well […]you just, like – you can’t really practice your Spanish there when, like, everybody’s speaking English there. So, like, at an earlier age you kind of, like, just stop, like, losing your ability to speak it, and that kind of happened to me.
Fear and Pressure	Title: Buried Hobbies
		It says deportes, which means sports. […] it’s in the storage room and it’s, like, all the way down there and forgotten. Like, a lot of people, because of the fear of ICE, they-they don’t try to do, like, stuff because they’re scared. And so, like, maybe they give up sports and they, like, give up other activities.
Marginalization, Exclusion, Neglect	Title: Dangerous Neighborhood
		one day that graffiti like appeared and like I’ve heard that, the […] apartment complex, like they have like the gun shots and like people like smoking. You know? And like I wanted to show like how some people when they come here, like they don’t have like the money to live in a good neighborhood, so they have to go live like some places that are like are no good or like dangerous. And like the youth or kids are like exposed to the – to that
Loss	Title: Subliminal
		One chair was missing because a family member got deported. Like, it’s, the table is full, but at the same time, it’s empty because that one person’s missing and is sorely missed
Sadness, grief, isolation, anger, frustration, low self-worth, and shame	Title: Orange Hoodie
		I don’t have a name, but I thought, like, when you have fear and anxiety you, like, hold back. So, like, you feel lonely and, so um, I don’t really know how to explain it, but like, um, it’s like something holding you back and then you like, fall, into like some type of, like, sadness or depression