{"id":5423,"date":"2018-03-09T16:31:27","date_gmt":"2018-03-09T21:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/psychiatry\/?p=5423"},"modified":"2018-03-09T16:32:06","modified_gmt":"2018-03-09T21:32:06","slug":"5423","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/psychiatry\/2018\/03\/09\/5423\/","title":{"rendered":"Lisa Fortuna, MD, Weighs in on an ACLU Immigration Lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Lisa Fortuna, MD, Director of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, was quoted\u00a0in an\u00a0<\/span>NPR story<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>about an ACLU case against immigration authorities in which a child was allegedly separated from her mother.\u00a0 Dr Fortuna, who is also a co-founder of Refugee Immigrant Assistance Center Community Counseling, has also filed an\u00a0<\/span>amicus brief<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>in the lawsuit.<\/p>\n

The Plaintiff in the case,\u00a0 Ms. L, is a Congolese asylum seeker who first arrived in the country in San Diego with her daughter.\u00a0 Immigration officials there did not speak her native language Lingala, but Ms. L was able to communicate with them\u00a0in the little Spanish she knows that she left Congo fearing near certain death.\u00a0 Ms L. is Catholic,\u00a0<\/span>a group that has faced retaliation<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>for connection to peaceful protests against President Kabila.\u00a0 Several days after she arrived, her daughter was taken from her without a hearing and sent to a facility in Chicago.\u00a0 At the time of separation Ms L. could hear her daughter screaming to be returned to her mother in the next room, and contact has been limited to infrequent\u00a0phone calls.<\/p>\n

Dr Fortuna’s\u00a0<\/span>amicus brief<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>focuses on the long term and irreversible physiological, developmental and\u00a0psychological issues\u00a0periods of separation can create for traumatized children.\u00a0 As she is quoted to say in the\u00a0<\/span>NPR piece<\/a>,\u00a0“I don’t think we want to be a society that does that to children.”<\/p>\n

On another note, Dr Fortuna was listed by New Harbinger Publications as one of “13 Badass Psychologists… Who Happen to be Women.”
\nSee #4\u00a0<\/span>here<\/a>!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lisa Fortuna, MD, Director of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, was quoted\u00a0in an\u00a0NPR story\u00a0about an ACLU case against immigration authorities in which a child was allegedly separated from her mother.\u00a0 Dr Fortuna, who is also a co-founder of Refugee Immigrant Assistance Center Community Counseling, has also filed an\u00a0amicus brief\u00a0in the lawsuit. The Plaintiff in the case,\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13421,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/psychiatry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5423"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/psychiatry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/psychiatry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/psychiatry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13421"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/psychiatry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5423"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/psychiatry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5425,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/psychiatry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5423\/revisions\/5425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/psychiatry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/psychiatry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/psychiatry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}