PS: Was that the result you expected? I mean, I was shocked reading this, that immigration concerns account for and could completely eliminate that 30 percent.
"It points to why we need to look more intersectionally at risk."
AG: No, I wasn't expecting that. Our research scientist who looked at the paper with me — when I sent it to her, I said, "Look at this, I found something that's pretty striking" — was floored. You don't usually see something that completely eliminates risk. You usually see it reduces it a little bit. But the fact that putting one additional variable in, and that was the concerns about immigration, eliminated the fact that they were at risk? It points to why we need to look more intersectionally at risk. If we just say, "Latinx youth are at [an] increased risk," we don't really have a good way to address how to bring that down. But if there are policies in place that are causing fear, that are causing worries, that are increasing their risk? That's the place that we need to obviously impact policy and [make] change.
![PS: Was that the result you expected? I mean, I was shocked reading this, that immigration concerns account for and could completely eliminate that 30 percent.
"It points to why we need to look more intersectionally at risk."
AG: No, I wasn't expecting that. Our research scientist who looked at the paper with me — when I sent it to her, I said, "Look at this, I found something that's pretty striking" — was floored. You don't usually see something that completely eliminates risk. You usually see it reduces it a little bit. But the fact that putting one additional variable in, and that was the concerns about immigration, eliminated the fact that they were at risk? It points to why we need to look more intersectionally at risk. If we just say, "Latinx youth are at [an] increased risk," we don't really have a good way to address how to bring that down. But if there are policies in place that are causing fear, that are causing worries, that are increasing their risk? That's the place that we need to obviously impact policy and [make] change.](https://media1.popsugar-assets.com/files/thumbor/euAMOWuLrjTg18VdAue0ENqZ_ZI/fit-in/1024x1024/filters:format_auto-!!-:strip_icc-!!-/2020/09/29/876/n/37139775/135805f72f8e4390_GettyImages-1153804557/i/PS-Was-that-result-you-expected.jpg "PS: Was that the result you expected? I mean, I was shocked reading this, that immigration concerns account for and could completely eliminate that 30 percent.
\"It points to why we need to look more intersectionally at risk.\"
AG: No, I wasn't expecting that. Our research scientist who looked at the paper with me — when I sent it to her, I said, \"Look at this, I found something that's pretty striking\" — was floored. You don't usually see something that completely eliminates risk. You usually see it reduces it a little bit. But the fact that putting one additional variable in, and that was the concerns about immigration, eliminated the fact that they were at risk? It points to why we need to look more intersectionally at risk. If we just say, \"Latinx youth are at [an] increased risk,\" we don't really have a good way to address how to bring that down. But if there are policies in place that are causing fear, that are causing worries, that are increasing their risk? That's the place that we need to obviously impact policy and [make] change.")
