The experience of immigrant families under growing immigration enforcement policies were explored to betterunderstand the health implications that anti-immigrant policies may have on children, their families, and thewider social fabric of the immigrant community in Tucson, Arizona. A community based participation action researchapproach helped researchers formulate questions and organize focus groups to capture the nuances of mixedimmigration status families—the varied legal status of family members within households—a condition attributedto decades of migration in response to the U.S. demand for labor and progressive impoverishment in less developednations. Focus group texts were analyzed using qualitative content analysis. Among the most notable results includedthe remarkably high stress experienced by immigrant families, especially among those headed by women.Implications of fear-invoking stress for immigrants include greater threats to psychological and physical well beingimportant for health and human development.